An oncologist talked about the five most common types of cancer

Skin diseases occupy the first place in the rating of malignant neoplasms detected for the first time. At the same time, some types of cancer have become less frequent. This was stated by Andrey Kaprin, Director General of the National Medical Center of Radiology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Chief Outside Specialist-Oncologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia, President of the Association of Oncologists of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and RAO, during the press conference "Oncological care in Russia: current situation and development prospects", timed to coincide with the World Cancer Day and the 80th anniversary of the oncological service of Russia, on February 3.

"It is too early to summarize the results, nevertheless, we can see from the figures that the leaders of first-time detected malignant neoplasms are approximately the same for all years. There are some changes for stomach cancer. Gastric cancer for 10 years took the fourth average place among all cancer diseases today has fallen to the sixth, "- he said.

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