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.