BREAST CANCER MORTALITY IN THE STATE OF ACRE AND IN BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Pedro Henrique Vercoza De
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Sidney Rogério Alves, Salomão, Orly Coelho, Niemeyer, Gustavo Lima, Pachá, Derick Pedrosa, Gonçalves, Júlia Marçal de Vasconcelos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/931
• topic: Neoplasias da Mama, Mortalidade, Estudo Ecológico.; Breast Neoplasms, Mortality, Ecological studies.

Introduction: According to the José Alencar Gomes da Silva National Cancer Institute - NCI (2019), breast cancer in Brazil is the most common malignant neoplasm and the one that most leads to death of women with 16% of deaths, second only to cardiovascular diseases (28%). Objective: Describe breast cancer mortality in Brazil and in the state of Acre between 2010 and 2019.Method: Descriptive exploratory study of ecological type and historical series analyzing deaths and mortality rate from breast cancer in Brazil and in the state of Acre from 2010 to 2019 locating data from DATASUS/TABNET and MIS (Mortality Information System). Results: The total number of deaths from breast cancer in Brazil between the years 2010 to 2019 was 153,928. Conclusion: Most deaths occurred in individuals aged 80 years or older and females. It is extremely important to know the national and regional epidemiological profile of breast cancer, to increase the screening capacity as well as the chances of cure by improving the response time between diagnosis and the start of treatment, and decreasing mortality rates.