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Skin cancer is a major public health problem both at the global and national level. In the general structure of mortality worldwide, as well as in the Republic of Moldova (RM), malignant tumours occupy the second place, after cerebrovascular diseases. In the Republic of Moldova, it is determined a late addressability of patients with skin tumours. Cancer mortality causes a considerable increase in the costs of treatment of this disease and other social costs associated with the malady: exclusion of person from socio-economic activity, care, time and resources from other family members, transportation, etc. [1]. Patients in the Republic of Moldova do not have sufficient access to modern diagnostic and treatment ser-vices. Despite the high incidence and mortality, in the regions of the Republic of Moldova there is only one insti-tution, the Oncological Institute, which offers the specialized treatment to persons with skin cancer that produces enormous additional social costs borne by the patients and their families (transport) and does not ensure the reali-zation of the principle of services closer to the persons who need them [5]. The financing of services provided to persons with cancer is ensured through the funds of the compulsory health insurance [2]. A barrier in the provision of cancer control services in the Republic of Moldova is the insufficiency of the specialized medical personnel and the limited access of specialists in the field to the trainings on the application of modern technologies. |
