[Malignant neoplasms of the breast and female genital organs in East Germany in 1985. Statistical data of the National Cancer Register].

29,288 cases of cancer in the female population of the GDR have been registered 1985. The five most frequent localizations (breast, uterine cervix, colon, stomach, uterine corpus) had 15,297 cases (53.6%). The number of breast cancers continuously increased, whereas since the seventies a decrease of female genital cancers could be observed. 44 per cent of all cancers in the female had to be correlated to breast and genital organs. 88 per cent of all tumours were histologically proved. More than 50 per cent of all cases could be alloted to stage I or II. Cancers were the with 17,952 deaths the second by frequency reason of death in the GDR 1985 following cardiovascular cause.