Mortalidade por câncer do colo do útero: características sociodemográficas das mulheres residentes na cidade de Recife, Pernambuco

Abstract

in Recife, death by cervix cancer are more frequent among adult, black, single, housewives, women living in poor neighborhoods and attended to at national health system hospitals, with differences in death risk among age ranges and living place.

Correção da magnitude da mortalidade por câncer do colo do útero no Brasil, 1996-2005

“…After correction, the mortality rate from cervical cancer in Brazil had a percent increment above 100%, from 5.1 to 10.4 deaths per 100,000 women-years, adjusted In another study 13 in Recife, northeastern state of Pernambuco, the authors reviewed death certifi cates against medical records and concluded that half of the cases previously reported in the SIM as cancer of the uterus, NOS were due to cervical cancer, increasing deaths from cervical cancer by 20%.…”

“…In a study of deaths from uterine cancer, NOS the authors were able to reclassify most diagnoses by primary site using a simple approach of data recovery and retrieval. 13 Therefore it should be further explored the reasons that prevent adequate completion of death certifi cates.…”

Years of Potential Life Lost Due to Breast and Cervical Cancer: a Challenge for Brazilian Public Policy

“…About to marital status, study realized with Indian females about the participation in the breast cancer screening detected that women who were not married were significantly less likely to participate in any level of the screening process than married women (Frie et al, 2013). In relation to the cervical cancer, the black/brown and single women had a higher risk of dying (Mendonca et al, 2008;Meira et al, 2011).…”

“…During the course of the disease there are injuries that may constitute predictive signals representing the probability of cure (Mendonca et al, 2008). The Pap test is a simple method that can detect cervical lesions from exfoliated epithelial cells.…”

Cervical cancer mortality trends in Brazil, 1981-2006

“…In Brazil, however, corrections to deal with this situation have only been implemented rarely 14 , or have been limited to specific locations 15,16,17,18,19 .…”