Prostate cancer – statistical analysis data in a 3year period in the Eastern region of Republic of North Macedonia

Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor that originates from prostate cells. In general, the prostate tumor usually grows slowly and remains confined to the gland for many years.According to World Health Organization (WHO), prostate cancer is after lung cancer, the most common malignancy in men in the world and the third leading cause of death when it comes to malignancies (lung and colon cancer). For the purposes of this paper was used data from the Institute for Public Health of Republic of North Macedonia in the period of 2016 to 2018 and data from the Center for Public Health – Shtip-at the level of the Eastern region in the period of 3 years. The results show that the most of the cases registered are 65-74 years old or 54%,and the lowest number are registered at the age of 45-54 or only 2%.26% of the patients are aged 55-64,and over the age of 75 account for 18% of all registered cases in Shtip. In Probishtip, total number of registered cases in the period from 2016 to 2018 ie 3 years is 48 cases. The highest number of cases is in 2016, ie 20 patients, then in 2017 there are 18, and in 2018 were registered 10 patients