Educational Anticancer Work in Modern Russia

Abstract

An increase of cancer incidence continues in Russia. According to the author one of the reason is insufficient educational anticancer work among the population registered in the country for decades. The consequence of this situation is a violation of a significant part of the population measures of prevention, delayed appeal of patients for help, a stable high (about 20%) proportion of patients with stage IV of disease among persons with first-ever diagnosis of cancer, the rejection of thousands of cancer patients from treatment (40% of those are with stage I-II of disease), etc. The article analyzes the situation in the country and offers solutions of problem.