Asia's Prince Jang Geun-seok Fight Thyroid Cancer Why Men Are Being Diagnosed Late?
Apr 22, 2025
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Jang Geun-seok, who confessed to fighting thyroid cancer last year, revealed the situation at the time of cancer diagnosis, the surgical process, and the values that have changed since then.
Jang Geun-seok has the fear of the word cancer. Even if thyroid cancer is 'good cancer', there is no such thing as'good cancer' in the world. "It was also my first time in the hospital and going to the operating room. I went to the operating table in a tense state, but when I closed my eyes and opened them, six hours passed," he recalled.
In addition, he calmly revealed that he is checking his blood pressure first when he wakes up for management after fighting cancer, and that he has treated himself more carefully, and that he naturally quit smoking because he wants to do less bad things. He also said he is studying charity work to return the love he received.
Thyroid cancer, which Jang Geun-seok is fighting against, accounts for 12% of all cancers as of 2022, and is the most common cancer. It is called "Good Cancer" because the prognosis is better when it is detected and the prognosis is better when appropriate treatment is performed early than other cancers, and some analysts say that this is because the diagnosis has been accelerated due to the generalization of ultrasound tests.
However, in the case of men, the Adam's apple is relatively large compared to women, so if the nodule does not grow more than 5cm, it is often found late because it is invisible to the naked eye. It is also known that women generally develop thyroid cancer about three times more than men, which is one of the backgrounds overlooked by male patients. For this reason, statistics show that women have a higher survival rate than men.
Meanwhile, the number of male thyroid cancer patients is steadily increasing every year. From 2018 to 2022, the growth rate of male patients reached 23.4%.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
