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

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2002;3(1):29-32.

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to estimate trends of change in cancer morbidity for the breast, uterine corpus, cervix uterus, and ovaries of the female population of Kyrgyzstan as a whole and in separate regions over a 10 year period (1989-1998). This retrospective study, applying descriptive and analytical methods of modern oncoepidemiology, established that breast cancer occupies the first place, neoplasia of the cervix uterus the second, of the ovaries the third and the uterine corpus the fourth, within the range of malignant neoplasms of the female reproductive system. On the whole the indicated cancer incidence rates tend to growth in dynamics and different regional specificities.