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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how the incidence of oral cancer has changed over the past few years. Material and Method: In this study, the number of total cancers and lip-oral-pharyngeal cancers by year was compared using public big data from the National Cancer Center. The incidence rate of lip-oral cavity-pharyngeal cancer from 2000 to 2015 was analyzed. Results: In 2000, there were 101,772 cases of all cancers in all men and women. In 2015, there were 202,266 cancer cases in both men and women. In 2000, there were 2,183 cases of lip-oral-pharyngeal cancers for both men and women. In 2015, lip-oral-pharyngeal cancer were 3337 in both men and women. Conclusions: It is possible that oral cancer also increased along with the increase in total cancer, and it is thought that we should focus on preventing cancer in the future.

• 장현선(조선대학교 치과대학 구강병리학교실) | Hyun-Seon Jang (Dept. of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, Chosun University) Correspondence