[Predicting the incidence of malignant neoplasms in Cracow in the year 2000]

In connection with the data of the Cracov Tumor Registry concerning the 1970-1985 period and the population prognoses of the city of Cracov the expected incidence and the number of patients with most common malignant neoplasms in the year 2000 has been estimated. One can foresee the continuance of the decrease of the risk and incidence of malignant neoplasms of the stomach in both sexes and of cancer of the lung and breast in women. The incidence of malignant neoplasms in general as compared with the year 1985 will in the year 2000 increase by ca. 60% in men and by ca. 39% in women.