Hospital Morbidity through Cervical Cancer - Romania, 2009

Cancer is responsible for a large share of deaths, worldwide as well as in Romanaia, and induces high costs (for individuals, health system and society), proved to be one of the most burdensome diseases.Lately, problems induced by cancer in women are increasing, due to the raise in incidence, but mainly to the high mortality rate of cervix cancer. Hospitals having obstetrics-gynecology departments are the main medical units who provide specialized services for diagnosis, staging and treatment of cervix cancer; the most of cervix cancers cases are recorded in hospital care sector, and the analysis of hospital morbidity may offer a pretty fair picture of the phenomenon. The present paper presents some results of the analysis of the hospital morbidity trough cervix cancer, in hospitals who reported clinical data at patient level, during the first eight months of the year 2009.