Onkológia 6/2013

Epidemiology of selected female genital organs malignancies

Female genital organs tumors are the serious problem in gynecology and cancer epidemiology, whereas they represent 15.2 % of all malignancies in females. The most common topographic localisations of tumors are endometrium, cervix and ovary. The aim of this paper was to analyse the long-term trends of incidence and mortality of these three most common malignancies and to evaluate the age-specific characteristics and estimated survival.

Keywords: epidemiology, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer.