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V M Merabishvili

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[Lung cancer morbidity and mortality of the population of the USSR].

The kinetics of the lung cancer morbidity and mortality among the population of this country and the Union Republics is analysed. Both total incidence indices and age coefficients were found to raise. A higher efficacy of treatment for cancer of the lung was noted. The trends for further improvement of its therapy are delineated.

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[Incidence of stomach cancer in the USSR].

The authors have studied some tendencies in the morbidity and mortality due to malignant neoplasms of the stomach for the period from 1970 to 1975. The age-sex indices of the morbidity are reported as well as some data on a contingency of gastric cancer patients under dispensary control. There is noted a reduced morbidity and mortality rate due to gastric cancer among the population of this country.

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[Thyroid diseases in residents of St. Petersburg].

The degree of tensity of ecological and hygienic state of basic factors can be represented in terms of grades. In St. Petersburg three basic factors reach 5 grades in 7-grade scale. These are radiation, water and atmosphere. By radiation contamination St. Petersburg is on the 5th place after Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Rostov and Arkhangelsk. As to the number of thyroid diseases, two rises were observed: in the mid 80s and in the mid 90s. A rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer was particularly evident in 1991-1995. The dominating form was papillary carcinoma.

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