title: Over 400 years of cancer control efforts in Poland.
abstract: The history of the struggle against cancer in Poland is presented from its beginning, marked by the first hospital for cancer patients established four centuries ago in Warsaw, to the implementation of the main goal of National Cancer Programmes, i.e., the recent construction of a large, modern Cancer Centre in Warsaw. Among the 100,000 new cancer cases each year in Poland, there are more than 70,000 deaths. In males, cancers most often involve the lung (30.5%), stomach (9.8%), larynx (5.5%), prostate (5.1%), and urinary bladder (5.0%). In females, cancers most often involve the breast (17.5%), cervix uteri (9.8%), lung (6.6%), stomach (6.2%), and ovary (6.2%). The estimated probabilities of five-year survival are 26.4% for males and 39.8% for females. Over 100 years of epidemiologic investigation have resulted in a clear epidemiologic picture of cancer in Poland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Teleradiotherapy, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Warszawa, Poland.
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authors.lastname: Danczak-Ginalska
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authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wronkowski
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012042:Registries; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology