Breast cancer in the Czech Republic

english

2003

volume 37, issue 1

breast   Breast Neoplasms   Czech Republic   Epidemiology   Incidenca   Incidence   Mammography

Društvo radiologije in onkologije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Background. Malignant neoplasms present one of the most serious chapters of morbidity, mortality, and the overall perspective of the health status of Czech population. MaIignant neoplasms have been registered in the Czech Republic since the end of the 1950s. Guarantor of the all-state registry is the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (IHISCR), and conceptual and methodological steering is performed by the Council of the Czech Cancer Registry. The five most frequently diagnoses in Czech males and seven most frequentiy diagnoses in Czech females were foll owed during the last 20 years. The most frequent malignant neoplasm in Czech women is breast cancer. Conclusions. The incidence of this cancer has increased by 75% during the studied period. During the year 2001, three pilot studies of preventive mammography screening were done in the country. One caseof asympfomaiic breast cancer in the study costs 80,000 Kč (in reality it was 120,000 Kč). These costs are markedly lower than fhe combined therapy of advanced stages of breasf cancer.

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