Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
2015
Abstract
Lung cancer is difficulty treatable malignant tumor with high incidence and mortality. In the last years, the incidence is about 60/100 000 of inhabitants with mortality about 50/100 000 inhabitants.
Incidence of this cancer is slightly decreasing in men but significantly increasing in women. Recently the scissors of incidence and mortality is step by step more opening, what is reflective of the therapeutic successes of the last years.