TRENDS IN CANCER INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY - COMPARATIVE DATA WORLDWIDE, EUROPEAN UNION, AND ROMANIA

Cancer is a worldwide major public health challenge, representing the second cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In order to establish the proper ways of action, both in regard prevention and treatment, of their costs, and necessities for the infrastructure development, personnel forming and training, it is mandatory to know the very precise values of incidence and mortality by cancer. Using data coming from International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) Lyon, France, there are analyzed and synthesized the values of these indicators for Romania, comparing to world and EU, for the principal 25 forms of malignancies; the analysis indicates continuous increases, for 2008–2012: for total, incidence grew with 12.03%, and mortality, with 4.21 %. The ratios between mortalities and incidences are, many times, higher than those in EU, and even worldwide, especially for colorectal, stomach, lip / oral cavity, thyroid, melanoma, larynx, and mainly – liver cancer. The specific situation of Romania imposes a stronger development of the prevention, of the uses of more performing treatment procedures, as well as, a more knowledge of the statistical data on cancer, and in this regard, it will be very necessary, to re-establish of the national cancer registry.