Epidemiology of mammary gland cancer in women of Transcarpathian region

Abstract

Objective: to study the epidemiology of breast cancer in women in Transcarpathian region and compare it with national data. Materials and methods. Materials: data from the National Cancer Registry of Ukraine and the Cancer Registry of Zakarpattia Oblast for the years 2018-2022. Methods: bibliosemantic, medico-statistical, and of structural-and-logical analysis. Results. It was found in the course of the study that over the years of the study, the incidence rate of women in Transcarpathian region decreased by 1.5% and in 2021 amounted to 27.1 per 100 thousand of female population. This indicator is 1.5 times lower than the corresponding incidence rate of women in Ukraine. The proportion of women in whom the disease was detected in advanced stages increased 1.5 times over the years of the study and in 2022 amounted to 41.9%. In Transcarpathian region, the proportion of women diagnosed with the disease in advanced stages in 2022 was 1.4 times higher than in Ukraine as a whole. The mortality rate of women due to mammary gland cancer in Transcarpathian region is 0.5 per 100 thousand female population lower than in Ukraine as a whole. In 2022, these indicators differ in the context of the administrative territories of the region. Conclusions. An unfavorable epidemiological situation regarding breast cancer in women is registered in Transcarpathian region.