Colorectal cancer and environmental pollution.

Monitoring of personal exposure of population from environmental pollution is a very complicated process. There are many different pollutants in environment in very low concentrations and their distribution is non-homogenous. To measure these pollutants is not often feasible or possible due to technical problems.

Cancer incidence around the Nuclear Power Plant Jaslovské Bohunice.

The total cancer incidence in our district has been increasing during years 1986-1995. Standardised cancer incidence in district Trnava in 1994 to European population was 278.12 per 100,000 inhabitants.