LUNG CANCER AND STOMACH CANCER MORBIDITY IN KEMEROVO REGION FROM 1996 TO 2015
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Objective – lung cancer (LC) and stomach cancer (SC) morbidity in Kemerovo region (KR) from 1996 to 2015 years.
Methods. Analysis of standardized indexes of LC and SC morbidity. Comparison of morbidity levels and tendency in two 10 years periods: 1996-2005 and 2006-2015.
Results. Lung cancer morbidity in Kemerovo region reduced from 49,0 to 36,7 cases on 100000 inhabitants from 1996 to 2015 years, and stomach cancer morbidity – from 36,4 to 20,5 accordingly. The part of inhabitants living on territories with high levels of lung cancer morbidity in 1996-2015 years brought down from 58,8 % to 7,2 % in 2006-2015 years. The same reduction of stomach cancer morbidity was from 52,4 % to 7,6 %. The cities and districts of Kemerovo region had the local peculiarity according to combined estimation of cancer morbidity levels and tendency in two 10-years periods.
Conclusions. Evidently the lowering of lung cancer and stomach cancer morbidity is a result of decrease of carcinogens air and water pollution in Kemerovo region.
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