Dynamics of the Incidence Rates for Separate Forms of Cancer in the Female Population of Kyrgyzstan

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to estimate trends of change in cancer morbidity for the breast, uterinecorpus, cervix uterus, and ovaries of the female population of Kyrgyzstan as a whole and in separate regions over a10 year period (1989-1998).This retrospective study, applying descriptive and analytical methods of modern oncoepidemiology, establishedthat breast cancer occupies the first place, neoplasia of the cervix uterus the second, of the ovaries the third and theuterine corpus the fourth, within the range of malignant neoplasms of the female reproductive system. On the wholethe indicated cancer incidence rates tend to growth in dynamics and different regional specificities.

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