About the Authors

Sohee Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Sohee Park, Yeonju Kim

Current address: Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Affiliation Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Yeonju Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Sohee Park, Yeonju Kim

Current address: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Manoa, Hawaii, United States of America.

Affiliation Division of Cancer Early Detection, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Hai-Rim Shin

Shinh@wpro.who.int

Affiliations Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea, Western Pacific Regional Office, World Health Organization, Manila, the Philippines

Boram Lee

Affiliation Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Aesun Shin

Affiliation Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Kyu-Won Jung

Affiliation Division of Cancer Registration and Surveillance, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

Sun Ha Jee

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Institute for Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Dong Hyun Kim

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea

Young Ho Yun

Affiliation College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Sue Kyung Park

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Mathieu Boniol

Affiliation International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliations International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP HS PB. Performed the experiments: SP HS. Analyzed the data: SP BL SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP BL AS KJ MB. Wrote the paper: SP YK HS. Expert advice on analysis results and revised the manuscript: SJ DK YY SKP.