Publication details
Stručný přehled epidemiologie zhoubného novotvaru prsu v České republice
| Title in English | A brief overview of epidemiology of malignant breast neoplasm in the Czech Republic |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Onkologie |
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| Field | Oncology and hematology |
| Keywords | breast cancer; epidemiology |
| Description | Malignant diseases present a serious health challenge for the Czech population, particularly with respect to the increasing number of newly diagnosed cancer patients each year. Breast cancer is the most important cancer in women. In long-term view, there has been an upward trend in breast cancer incidence, with stagnation in recent years. In 2005, 5533 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed among Czech women, representing 105.4 malignant tumours per 100,000 women, or 17 % of all newly diagnosed malignancies in women. In contrast to this, breast cancer mortality has stagnated in the long term; 1916 women died in 2005 (36.5 per 100,000 women), while the prevalence reached 49,539 women with breast cancer (944 per 100,000 women). |
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