Throughout 2021, cancer remained the leading cause of death in South Korea.

For every 100,000 people, the death rate from lung cancer was 36.8; next highest was liver cancer at 20.0; then came colorectal at 17.5; then stomach at 14.1; and finally pancreatic at 13.5. New statistics from the South Korean Statistical Office showed on Tuesday that despite the ongoing expansion of the Covid-19 pandemic, cancer remained the leading cause of death in the country in 2021. In 2021, cancer was responsible for 161.1 deaths per 1....