Incidence and mortality for cancer in the district of Barranquilla, 2008-2012
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Objective: To describe the behavior of cancer incidence and mortality during 2008-2012, in the District of Barranquilla.
Methods: Incident cancer cases were collected, analyzed and processed by the Barranquilla Cancer Population Registry during the study period. The population structure was obtained from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) and the mortality of the Cancer Information System in Colombia. The total and specific gross and specific incidence rates and mortality by age and sex were estimated, as well as the incidence rates standardized by age. Statistical analyzes were performed with SPSS V24 and Canreg5.
Results: 8182 cases of cancer were identified, excluding those of non-melanoma skin (62.8% in women). 83% of the tumors had histological verification and only 5.2% by death certificate. The adjusted incidence rate for all tumors was 116.5 per 100,000 in men and 155.4 per 100,000 in women. The most frequent locations were: Prostate and Trachea-bronchi-lung in men, while in women Mama and Cervix occupied the first places. Mama and Prostate had the highest incidences of mortality in women and men, respectively.
Conclusion: Specific behavior of cancer incidence and mortality in Barranquilla has important variations in main types of tumors (breast and prostate) with respect to the country and other population registries, but they remain within the expected ranges. The actions of the RPCB must be strengthened and its medium and long-term sustainability ensured, given that the data provided are key to showing a representative behavior of the Colombian Caribbean.
- Cancer
- incidence
- mortality
- population registry
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