3.C.3 Number of deaths due to malignant neoplasms per 100 thous. population
Sustainable Development Goal
Goal 3. Good health and well-being
Priority
Increasing access to specialist and therapeutic treatment, with particular emphasis on lifestyle diseases
Definition
Total number of cancer deaths per 100 thousand population.
Unit
persons
Available dimensions
total
Methodological explanations
Death is a permanent, i.e. irreversible cessation of the functions of organs necessary for life (regardless of the period after live birth), as a result of which the vital functions of the entire organism cease.
Neoplasm - according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Problems ICD-10: disease entity with the symbol C00-D48 - a group of diseases in which the cells of the body divide in an uncontrolled manner, and newly formed cancer cells do not differentiate into typical tissue cells. Loss of control over division is associated with mutations of genes encoding proteins. These mutations cause the cell to respond not at all or inappropriately to signals from the body.
When developing statistical data on deaths by cause, the initial cause of death is assumed. The initial cause is considered to be the disease that is the beginning of the disease process that led to death or the injury or poisoning that resulted in death.
In medical practice, the cause of death is additionally distinguished: secondary (which is considered to be a disease or injury or the circumstances of an accident - resulting from the initial cause of death) and direct (which is a disease that becomes the final cause of death as a result of a disease, injury or poisoning, or the circumstances of an accident that are the initial and secondary cause of death).
In terms of adjudication on the causes of death, since 1997, the principles of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Problems - 10th Revision (ICD-10) have been in force in Poland.
