Number of cancer patients topped 110,000 last year

According to statistics compiled by the National Health Insurance Corporation, 291,820 cancer patients (male: 148,266, female: 143,554) from a total of 46.7 million people received anticancer therapies in 2002 and of these, 110,147 people (male: 60,711, female: 49,436) were newly diagnosed as cancer, showing a 4.7 percent increase compared with 105,237 people in 2001.

By type of total cancer...