THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PREVALENCE AND MORTALITY OF LUNG CANCER IN ROMANIA

Abstract

Cancer is a global problem, until recently cardiovascular disease occupies the 1st place as importance in the illness of the population, but for several years, according to the United Nations, it is becoming the most important public health issue. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1,825 million cases of lung cancer were estimated globally in 2012, respectively 13% of all cancer cases and 1.59 million deaths due to this type of cancer (19.4% from the total deaths). In this article are presented the trends of lung cancer in oncology prevalence and mortality in Romania. The research is based on the existence of medical data on the incidence of cancer in Romania for the period 2008-2017, before the accession to the European Union, these data are considered irrelevant due to the wrong ways of collecting. Afterwards, these data are classified and reported to the territorial administrative units, then statistical analyzes, spatial and fractal modeling are performed. The results obtained show the concentration of lung cancer in urban systems and old industrial areas.