Epidemiology of cancer of the oesophagus in S. Paulo, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Mirra, Antonio Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 1982
• Outros Autores: Souza, José Maria Pacheco de, Gotlieb, Sabina Léa Davidson, Pastorelo, Edmur Flávio, Bussacos, Marco Antonio, Corrêa, Maria Cecília Marchesi da Motta Azevedo, Haenszel, William, Correa, Pelayo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/23109
• topic: Câncer^i1^sSão Paulo; SP; Bra; Epidemiologia; Neoplasms^i2^sS. Paulo; SP; Bra; Epidemiology

Aspects of the incidente of cancer of the oesophagus in residents of the city of S. Paulo, Brazil, for 1975, are examined. Data collected by the Cancer Registry yield a rate of 6.4/100,000 and 1.3/100,000 for males and females, respectively; when adjusted to the «world-population» the rates are 9.2/100,000 and 2.0/100,000. Male rates put S. Paulo at higher risk than three other Brazilian cities with known data, namely Fortaleza, Recife and Rio de Janeiro; for females there is no strong indication of differences, except in the case of Fortaleza. The specific age-sex incidence curves conform well to the pattern described by Higginson and Muir; values for the curves of 1nI (age-specific rate) at ages 35 through 75 were 5.7 for males and 4.4 for females, when adjusting a straight line. S. Paulo city natives present a lower incidence than people born elsewhere; for the two categories of migrants within Brazil, living in S. Paulo, the age-specific incidence rates for males are consistently very high. Male-female ratio patterns are fairly regular among the three Brazilian groups; the foreign-born present higher ratios.