SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and public institutions will make the extensive cancer patient database available to academic and industrial researchers. The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Tuesday introduced the K-CURE online library, a comprehensive big data framework that encompasses 1.98 million cancer patients registered between 2012 and 2019. This dataset [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of South Koreans who know that alcoholic beverages are a cancer-causing substance remains low at about 30 percent, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey of 7,000 Korean men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 across the country conducted by the National Cancer [...]
CHANGWON, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technique for detecting prostate and pancreatic cancer by analyzing urine samples. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Materials Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, and Kyung Hee University announced on Wednesday that it had developed a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 30 percent of all YouTube videos about cancer are based on false information, a study showed Wednesday. A research team from the Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital conducted a study of 702 videos from 227 YouTube channels trying out fenbendazole, an anthelmintic for dogs, as an alternative medicine [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While the risk of cancer is rising among Koreans in their 20s and 30s, plans for returning to society after treatment are still lacking, a non-profit organization said Sunday. SWIMPYO surveyed 300 people in their 20s and 30s who had been treated for breast cancer, 90 percent of whom [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Wigs made with generous hair donations are giving hope to children suffering from cancer in South Korea. The country has been seeing approximately 1,600 children diagnosed with cancer each year, most of whom suffer from hair loss during the course of chemotherapy. Antibiotic wigs, which are readily available, are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — With more Koreans drinking alone at home in the pandemic era, a new study showed that drinking a small amount of alcohol every day raises the risk of cancer in the digestive system by 39 percent. A joint research team from Seoul National University Hospital and Samsung Medical Center [...]
IKSAN, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The appearance of an otter, a sign of a healthy environment, served as welcome news on Thursday to the residents of the small village of Jangjeom in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. Jangjeom has been stigmatized as a ‘cancer village’ after a cluster of cancer patients emerged following the opening [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC San Diego have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new precision treatments that may skirt [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the top cause of death in South Korea, with the number of deaths hitting a record high last year, a government report showed Tuesday. In 2020, 304,948 deaths were reported in South Korea, up 3.3 percent from a year earlier. It marked the highest annual number since [...]