Number of intestine/breast cancers up

A survey of 131 hospitals across the country conducted by the Korea Central Cancer Registration Headquarter under the Ministry of Health Welfare has disclosed that the number of new cancer patients (excluding epithelial cancer) has been increasing in 2000 with the highest incidence of stomach cancer.

- The newly registered cancer patients in 2001 were 83,846 people, up 1.9 percent over the p...