100 thousand cancer patients newly registered last year.

It was reported that about 100 thousand of new patients were suffering from cancers last year and the total NHI payment for 250 thousand patients including over 140 thousands of old patients amounted to 641,600 million won, 5% of the total NHI payment. Overall number of cancer patients in Korea showed one in every 200.

According to the statistics compiled by the NHIC the total number of can...