[Improvement of methods for assessing public health; use of the parameters of standardized and cumulative risks of death].

The paper gives the results of an analysis of interval estimations of the indices and age-adjusted structure of malignancy mortality, by using direct, indirect, and cumulative standardization methods. General trends in cancer mortality have been revealed and an excess risk of cancer deaths and the structural features of mortality due to cancer of the respiratory system and chest and gender-specific pathology: breast cancer in females and prostate cancer in males have been assessed in the Kiev Region in 1980-2003.