Abstract
Malignant neoplasm present one of the most serious chapter of morbidity, mortality, and the overall perspective of the health status of Czech population. Malignant neoplasms have been registered in the Czech Republic since the end of the 1950s.
Guarantor of the all-state registry is the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, and conceptual and methodological steering is perfromed by the Council of The Czech Cancer Registry. The five most frequently diagnoses in Czech males and seven most frequently diagnoses in Czech female were followed during the last 20 years.
The most frequent malignant neoplasm in Czech women is breast cancer. The incidence of this cancer has increased by 75% during the studied period.
During the year 2001, three pilot studies of preventive mammography screening were done in the country. One case of asymptomatic breast cancer in the study costs 80,000 Kč (in reality it was 120,000 Kč).
These costs are markedly lower than the combined therapy of adva