Socio-economic analysis based on the definition of lost life potential due to mortality from malignant neoplasms

The urgent task of public health is to combat those diseases that cause the main losses of public health, namely the study and ranking of malignant tumors according to their significance in relation to the socio-economic damage they cause. The socio-economic significance of malignant neoplasms is due not only to the fact that they occupy one of the leading places among the causes of death, but also to the fact that they affect the average life expectancy and the extent of irreplaceable losses of the population. In addition, they cause significant economic damage, which is determined by both direct costs for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients, and indirect costs - reduction in the production of public product due to loss of ability to work or premature death of the patient in the working age and childhood. According to E. M. Axel and V. V. Dvoirin, social and economic losses from malignant neoplasms are determined mainly (up to 70%) by losses from premature death.