Screening of TB contacts by tuberculin skin tests in a low-incidence community by BCG vaccination.

A 36-year-old man, an unemployed waiter, a regular patron of two bars living in a Czech city suffered for about a year from disorders caused probably by tuberculosis (TB). When hospitalised, diabetes mellitus and extensive lung TB were diagnosed. TB was found also at the post mortem examination when the patient died one week later.

[Trends in epidemiologic indicators of lung cancer in the Czech Republic 1970-1990].

Background: Lung cancer is the malignant tumour with the highest mortality in the Czech Republic as well as in highly developed countries of the world. The objective of the present study in an account on the incidence, diagnosis, treatment and mortality in the Czech Republic, at the Pneumological Clinic and the population in the district.

Methods And Results: The incidence and mortality rate from lung cancer increased during the past twenty years in men by 12% and declined by 2% resp.

Epidemiological studies on lung cancer in the Bohemia region.

In this epidemiological study, the incidence of lung cancer from 1981 to 1985 was evaluated in one district in the Central Bohemia Region with a population of 44,000. A total of 157 patients were identified as having lung cancer, the male:female ratio was 10:1, and 91% were smokers. Up to 78% of patients were detected because of their complaints, 17% at preventive examination, and 5% at autopsy.