For men, the average age for cancer diagnosis was 64.9 years, for women - 64.2 years.

For ten years, this indicator has changed: in 2008, the average age of sick men was 63.8 years, women - 63.3, experts added.

Also, experts, based on research by Russian oncologists, said that in the age group of 60 years and older, 71.3% of cases are diagnosed among men and 65.8% among women.

“This is due to the fact that malignant tumors in general, and cancer in particular, are most often a disease of accumulation of molecular disorders, which reaches a critical value and begins to lead to the formation of tumors in the older age group,” the expert of the Russian Society of Clinical Oncology, head of statistics explained Chemotherapy Department of the St. Petersburg Clinical Scientific and Practical Center for Specialized Types of Medical Care Fedor Moiseenko.

Breast cancer in Russia is often diagnosed between the ages of 60 and 74 years, the average age for detecting lung tumors is 65 years, and rectal cancer is 66.6 years.

“The age of pancreatic cancer is 65 years for men and 70 years for women. For liver cancer, the peak incidence is in men over 55 and women over 60. There is nothing surprising in the jump in morbidity in older people. Risk factors for these tumors are most often sporadic (intermittent. - RT ) and are associated with bad habits, eating habits, ”said an expert of the Russian Society of Oncologists, a senior researcher at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy of the National Research Medical Center for Oncology named after N.N. Blokhina Ilya Pokataev.

Previously, the most common types of cancer in Russia in 2018 were named.