[Incidence of stomach cancer in the USSR].

The authors have studied some tendencies in the morbidity and mortality due to malignant neoplasms of the stomach for the period from 1970 to 1975. The age-sex indices of the morbidity are reported as well as some data on a contingency of gastric cancer patients under dispensary control. There is noted a reduced morbidity and mortality rate due to gastric cancer among the population of this country.