The Ministry of health told about the increase in the age of detection of cancer in Russia

The average age of Russians with identified malignant neoplasms (ZNO) for ten years increased, it is 65.9 years in men and 64.8 years in women. Director of the Department of medical care and sanatorium-resort business of the Russian Ministry of Health Ekaterina Karakulina reported at the All-Russian Congress of Oncology Patients.

“Today, the average age of patients with established HNO has also shifted. For women today it is 64.8 years, for men today it is 65.9 years. That is, we see a constant increase with you, <...> a person lives, today there is an opportunity to increase active long life, she said.

According to the Ministry of Health, over ten years, the average age of detection of ZNO in men increased by 1.8 years, and in women by 1.1 years.

Karakulina noted that most often malignant tumors are detected in patients aged 65 to 75 years, and over the past ten years there has been a shift in detection towards 70-74 years. "We see how at the moment the detection of malignant formations is shifting to older age groups," she added.

Most often in 2025 in Russia detected HNO of the skin, not including melanoma — it accounted for 13.9% of all diagnosed cases of cancer. Malignant breast tumors are in second place (12.2%), colorectal cancer is in third place (11.9%).

In July, the World Health Organization reported that the number of new cancer cases worldwide could rise to nearly 35 million by 2050. At the same time, about 20.6 million cases of cancer are detected annually - almost 10 million people die from them.

The same forecast in September 2025 was voiced by the Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko. According to him, the number of cases of cancer in the world by 2050 may increase to 35 million, and the number of deaths to 18.5 million.

Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the world after cardiovascular disease.