Cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy in Korean women. Although age-standardized cancer incidence rate of cervical cancer has decreased from 18.6 per 100,000 women in 1999 to 12.3 per 100,000 women in 2010 in Korea with widespread routine screening, several epidemiologic characteristics are still present. Incidence of cervical cancer still varies according to geogra...

Extensive survey of the distribution of the liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis in Guandong Province, China, has revealed high frequencies in human populations in some areas and absence in others. The distribution relates in part to the demography of first and second intermediate hosts and animal reservoir hosts, but it relates more clearly to the differing food habits of various populations in par...

An understanding of the characteristics of occupational lung cancer is important to establish policies that prevent carcinogen exposure and to compensate workers exposed to lung carcinogens. This study analyzed the characteristics of occupational lung cancers in workers who were compensated under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Law between 1994 and 2011. A total of 179 occupation...