Abstract
Malignant neoplasms present one of the most serious health and social problems. Malignant neoplasms have been registered in the Czech Republic since the end of the 1950s.
They are monitored by the National Cancer Registry of the Czech Republic. Trends of incidence of registered cancer cases for males and females during the period 1980-2000 in the CzechRepublic and in the district Hradec Králové were studied separately.
The incidence grew systematically, faster in the nineties than in the eighties. The incidence for females was permanently lower than in males, but the difference has been systematically decreasing.
Trends of registered cases of 8 selected diagnoses - 5 for males (MN of stomach, MN of colon, MN of rectum, MN of lung, MN of prostate) and 7 for females (MN of stomach,MN of colon,MN of rectum,MN of lung,MN of breast, MN of cervix uteri, MN of corpus uteri) were followed in the same period.