[Economic aspects of the fight against cancer]

Social importance of malignant neoplasms lies not only in the fact of high morbidity and mortality rates but also in the economic damage. One half of males and females develop malignant tumors in their prime of life. As a result, the economic damage according to the materials of Omsk Province reports, in particular, makes 770, 6 rubles in skin cancer, 1010, 6 rubles- in cancer of the lower lip as calculated per one patient. But general economic losses due to malignant tumors in Omsk Province reached 20 818 483, 4 rubles in 1970. Taking into account these data on approximate value for the whole country will amount to no less than 3.4 billion rubles.