Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
June 2011
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge of Polish and Finnish students about cervical cancer prevention and the factors influencing it.
Study Design: 427 women took part in the research, 175 of whom were Finns and 252 Poles. The questionnaire had 20 questions.
To evaluate whether cervical cancer patients in selected regions of Poland show similar 5-year survival rates and if they are different from European average and, also, to evaluate the effect of selected prognostic factors. The analysis based on a cohort of 1386 cervical cancer cases identified by population-based Cancer Registries collecting data from Kieleckie and Opolskie voivodships and from the City of Warsaw in 1990-96. These data become complete by adding information from medical records.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Data on the survival of all incident cases collected by population-based cancer registries make it possible to evaluate the overall performance of diagnostic and therapeutic actions on cancer in those populations. EUROCARE-3 is the third round of the EUROCARE project, the largest cancer registry population based collaborative study on survival in European cancer patients. The EUROCARE-3 study analysed the survival of cancer patients diagnosed from 1990 to 1994 and followed-up to 1999.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe crude and standardized thyroid cancer incidence rates calculated for the period 1987-1997 in Poland increased from 0.5 to 0.9 and 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe history of the struggle against cancer in Poland is presented from its beginning, marked by the first hospital for cancer patients established four centuries ago in Warsaw, to the implementation of the main goal of National Cancer Programmes, i.e., the recent construction of a large, modern Cancer Centre in Warsaw.
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