在我国,目前每年发生癌症的人数约100万,死亡者70～80万。其中绝大多数系占人口总数80％以上的农村患者,他们患癌后往往自始至终都是就近在县级医院诊治。所以,努力提高我国数以千计的县级医院的医技水平,无疑会有利于大量的农村癌患者得到更为合理的诊断和治疗。为此,笔者对我院1981年1月～1988年12月收治的976例癌 In China, the number of cancers currently occurring every year is about 1 million, and 700,000 to 800,000 are dead. Most of them are rural patients who account for more than 80% of the total population. After they have developed cancer, they are often diagnosed and treated in county-level hospitals from the beginning to the end. Therefore, efforts to improve the medical skills of thousands of county-level hospitals in China will undoubtedly help a large number of rural cancer patients get more reasonable diagnosis and treatment. For this purpose, the authors treated 976 cases of cancer in our hospital from January 1981 to December 1988.