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Trends in malignant neoplasms in the Czech Republic and in the districtof Hradec Králové


Authors: L. Hodačová;  Z. Sobotík
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav sociálního lékařství UK, Praha, Lékařská fakulta, Hradec Králové, přednosta ústavu prof. PhDr. J. Mareš, CSc.
Published in: Prakt. Lék. 2004; (1): 15-18
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Overview

Malignant neoplasms present one of the most serious health and social problems. Malignantneoplasms have been registered in the Czech Republic since the end of the 1950s. They aremonitored by the National Cancer Registry of the Czech Republic. Trends of incidence ofregistered cancer cases for males and females during the period 1980-2000 in the CzechRepublicand in the district Hradec Králové were studied separately. The incidence grew systematically,faster in the nineties than in the eighties. The incidence for females was permanently lowerthan in males, but the difference has been systematically decreasing. Trends of registered casesof 8 selected diagnoses - 5 for males (MN of stomach, MN of colon, MN of rectum, MN of lung,MN of prostate) and 7 for females (MN of stomach,MN of colon,MN of rectum,MN of lung,MNof breast, MN of cervix uteri, MN of corpus uteri) were followed in the same period.

Key words:
malignant neoplasms - public health - Czech Republic - monitoring.

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