title: [Statistics of lung, stomach and esophageal cancer: status of oncological care, morbidity and mortality].
abstract: Lung cancer is the most common pattern of malignant neoplasms in males, gastric cancer ranks next. In the female pattern of cancer morbidity, gastric cancer is third in the incidence of tumors, pulmonary cancer occupies the 9th place. Esophageal cancer accounts for 3%. In the mortality pattern, lung cancer holds the lead in males and ranks 4th in females, gastric cancer is second in both sexes, esophageal cancer occupies the 7th place in males. In 1999 the standardized incidence rates of cancer of the lung were 64.8 and 6.8 in males and females, respectively. Those of the stomach and esophagus were 33.6 and 7.2 in males and 6.8 and 1.2 in females, respectively. There were tendencies for decreases in the morbidity and mortality of cancer at these sites in 1990 to 1999. The morphological verification of diagnosis of lung cancer does not reached 50%, this is higher for cancer of the stomach (71.6%) and esophagus (67.7%). There has been an increase in the proportion of patients with Stage IV disease in all tumor forms in question. The basic treatment for cancer of the stomach and lung was surgical (82.2 and 38.6%, respectively) and that for esophageal cancer is radiation (47.6%). As little as 10% of patients with gastric and lung cancer survive over 5 years. In esophageal cancer, this figure is much less (5%).
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Aksel'
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Davydov
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Ushakova
mesh_terms: D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D015996:Survival Rate