Mortality in Serbian males from the most common malignant tumors
Janković, S.; Jevremović, I.; Gledović, Z.; Marković-Denić, L.; Radosavljević, V.; Radovanović, Z.
Vojnosanitetski Pregled 52(3): 233-236
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8450 PMID: 7571539 Document Number: 448091
The frequency and distribution of mortality of men in Serbia caused by the most frequent malignant tumors in the period from 1982. to 1991., were shown. Data were taken from the Republic Statistic Center. For the evaluation of the situation the descriptive epidemiological method was used. In that period men mostly died from lung, stomach, prostate, liver, rectum, pancreas, larynx, colon, brain and urinary bladder cancer. In the same period the mortality increase was observed in lung cancer, rectum, pancreas, colon, urinary bladder, brain, larynx and liver. For the cancer of prostate and stomach the decrease of mortality was noticed.