Next come the Bryansk region (556.2), the Sakhalin region (550.2), Mordovia (548.6) and the Penza region (548.1).
Also, high incidence rates of malignant neoplasms, compared with other regions, were recorded in the Oryol (546.9), Yaroslavl (543.4), Kursk (537.7), Ivanovo (534.2) regions, as well as in the city of Sevastopol (532).
The lowest rate was recorded in Dagestan - 163.6 cases per 100 thousand people.
Relatively low indicators were also recorded in Chechnya (164.2), Ingushetia (176.5), Chukotka (205.4) and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (215.3).
In Tuva last year, 245.1 cases of malignant neoplasms per 100 thousand people were diagnosed.
Next are the Altai Republic (263.2), Yakutia (281.2), Kabardino-Balkaria (295) and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (301.2).
In St. Petersburg last year, the incidence rate of malignant neoplasms was 506.5 cases per 100 thousand people, in Moscow - 385.3.
In total, last year in Russia, 640.4 thousand cases of malignant neoplasms were first detected. This is 2.5% more than the level of 2018 (it was 624.7 thousand). The overall incidence rate was 436.3 cases per 100 thousand people.
According to the doctor of medical sciences, head of the department of skin and soft tissue tumors of the Moscow Clinical Scientific Center named after A.S. Loginov Konstantin Titov, the increase in the number of newly diagnosed cases is associated, in particular, with an improvement in the quality of diagnosis.
“Screening programs are starting to work in Moscow and some regions of the country ... Also, the oncological alertness of primary care doctors is beginning to improve, and early diagnosis of cancer is increasing,” he explained.
In addition, according to the expert, the statistics on the incidence of cancer are also affected by the increase in the life expectancy of Russians.
“The longer a person lives, the more longly during his life he receives exposure to various exogenous and endogenous carcinogenic factors - smoking, oncogenic viruses, hormonal factors, radiation, etc. Accordingly, the likelihood of developing a malignant tumor increases,” Titov said.
The doctor also added that cancer detection could be significantly higher if citizens are required to undergo the necessary examinations.
“If healthy people at a certain age will come to the medical examination, as well as participate in screening programs, then we will more often identify and treat their earlier stages of cancer and are more likely to completely get rid of the disease after organ-preserving treatment (85-95% cases), ”he added.
Earlier, Russian scientists talked about the creation of a number of viruses that cause the death of cancer cells.