75th Anniversary of Altai oncological service. Current diagnostic and treatment capacities of neoplastic diseases in Altai region

Initiation of oncological services in the Altaiskiy Kray began simultaneously with the creation of the Russian anti-cancer service. It was in that difficult post-war period, when the country was in dire need of population restoration, that the fight against cancer increased by the order of the USSR council “On measures to improve oncological care for the population.” This most crucial historical decision served as a catalyst not only for the technological development of the oncology service but also for the scaling of its key achievements, tools, and algorithms for including the population (prevention, oncology registration, etc.) into the regional oncology network. Thus, in 1946, among the first in the country, an oncology office was opened in post-war Barnaul.