Mortalidade por câncer no Brasil 1980-1995: padrões regionais e tendências temporais

Abstract

Mortality rates by all cancers were heterogeneous in Brazil. The risk of death by cancer was higher in the Southern and Southeastern regions, but was decreasing in these regions, the more developed in the country. The other regions, less developed, had lower mortality rates by cancer, but the rates were on increase. From 1991 to 1995, it was observed the stability of mortality rates from tobacco related cancers, fact less perceived among females.

Tendências da mortalidade por câncer nas capitais dos estados do Brasil, 1980-2004

“…3 It is not simple to interpret this decrease in mortality in ages lower than 70 years. Cancer is not a single disease, but actually the coexistence of several diseases, each of them with its own biological, clinical, and epidemiological characteristics and, therefore, its own causes and possibilities of prevention and treatment.…”

“…In 2002, a work was published analyzing a historical series on cancer mortality in Brazil, finished in 1995, and showed a decrease in rates. 3 Nevertheless, the quality of information on mortality for Brazil as a whole was unsatisfactory, so the study was the subject of some criticism. Because of that, we decided to conduct a study on the evolution of cancer mortality in Brazilian state capitals, to investigate whether the decreasing trends in rates would be confirmed with the inclusion of data pertaining only to state capitals, in which the coverage and quality of deaths records are superior to those of the country as a whole, as demonstrated by the lower proportion of undefined causes in relation to the whole number of deaths (12.4% for the country as a whole and 5.7% for the capitals).…”

A carga das neoplasias no Brasil: mortalidade e morbidade hospitalar entre 2002-2004

“…O diagnóstico de lesões precursoras do tumor e o tratamento de lesões mais avançadas é fundamental para que se evite a progressão da doença para formas mais invasoras e para que se obtenha um melhor prognóstico. É importante observar, entretanto, como aponta Wünsch-Filho (2002) 22 que o acesso a esses serviços de consulta não se dá pela simples escolha do indivíduo, mas está estruturalmente determinado.…”

“…Em relação à mortalidade por câncer de estômago, houve no Brasil ao longo dos últimos anos cessação na tendência de acréscimo 15,22 . O INCA (Instituto Nacional do Câncer) 15 apontou uma queda da mortalidade por esse tumor estatisticamente significante entre as mulheres no início da década de 1980 e estabilidade para ambos os gêneros até 1999.…”

Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer in a Sample Comprising Three Generations of Brazilian Women

“…Studies of historical trends show that cervical cancer incidence in Brazil has changed since 1980, but still is a public health problem in this country [3] [4]. Known risk factors for cervical cancer include HPV infection, age, early sexual exposure, multiple sexual partners, and sexual contact with high-risk males [5].…”