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Age-Related Cancer Risks (Analytical Indicators of Registration and Early Diagnosis)

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Malignant neoplasms (MNs) have a particular specificity of frequency in different age groups. The cancer risk among people under 35 years of age is extremely low: 10–15 cases per 100000 individuals of each age group. After 35 years of age, the likelihood of cancer increases by 10% with each year and by 50–70% for a five-year period, reaching values of 2000–5000 cases per 100000 individuals in older groups. Knowing these patterns and details of the localization structure for each age, it is possible to plan correctly the implementation of a complex of anticancer measures. There are certain difficulties in the formation of state statistics on malignant tumors. Not all administrative territories of Russia had or have access to the database of the deceased since 2011, which leads to the accumulation of “dead souls” in patient contingents. Other analytical indicators are also distorted. There is also difficulty in staffing regional cancer registries with specialists. Despite significant improvement in the relative 5-year survival rates of cancer patients, this process is much more modest in older age groups.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Merabishvili, 2017, published in Uspekhi Gerontologii, 2017, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 818–825.

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Merabishvili, V.M. Age-Related Cancer Risks (Analytical Indicators of Registration and Early Diagnosis). Adv Gerontol 8, 104–110 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079057018020091

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