1. Geographic peculiarities of endometrial and cervical cancer incidence in five continents (review).
- Author
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Tkeshelashvili VT, Bokhman JV, Kuznetzov VV, Maximov SJ, and Chkuaseli GT
- Subjects
- Africa epidemiology, Asia epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Developing Countries, Europe epidemiology, Female, Humans, Incidence, Latin America epidemiology, Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent epidemiology, North America epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Socioeconomic Factors, Uterine Neoplasms epidemiology, Endometrial Neoplasms epidemiology, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms epidemiology
- Abstract
The review of references and data on endometrial and cervical cancer incidence in five continents (1970, 1976, 1982, 1987) are presented. The increase in cervical cancer rates in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America has been recorded. The hormonedependent tumours (endometrial, breast cancer) prevail in the economically developed countries of Europe and North America. They have shown a tendency to increase since the end of the 70's. The possible causes of peculiarities in oncogynecological incidence have been discussed.
- Published
- 1993