factors associated with colorectal cancer staging in the state of Maranhão, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Joelson dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Thayane Costa Ferreira, Sardinha, Ana Hélia de Lima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3941
• topic: Neoplasias Colorretais; Estadiamento de Neoplasias; Vigilância em Saúde Pública; Neoplasias colorrectales; Estadificación de neoplasias; Vigilancia de la Salud Pública; Colorectal Neoplasms; Staging of Neoplasms; Public Health in Surveillance

Colorectal cancer is a challenge due to the need for specialized care in health services. Thus we aimed to analyze factors associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) staging in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach. Data were collected from System Information of Hospital Cancer Registry, with subsequent use of the chi-square test, considering the significance level (p<0.05). Of the 421 cases of CRC analyzed, there was a predominance of women (57.8%), over 60 years (31.3%), mixed race (68.2%), low education (43%), and multiple professions. Adenocarcinoma was the most frequent case (73.5%) and, after treatment were treated with surgery and chemotherapy 27.2% and 37.9% of cases showed disease remission, respectively. There was an association between late staging and histological type of adenocarcinoma (p<0.001), and the treatments received in late cases were associated with surgery and chemotherapy (p<0.001). The patients with early cases had greater chances of complete remission (p<0.000), and the time to treatment was greater than 60 days in late cases. The analyzed variables mainly reflect the delay in diagnosis, requiring combined treatments for the effective possibility of healing the disease. The analyzed cases had late staging, which reflects in cases with late diagnosis and treatment, due to the silent nature of the disease, the difficulty of the patient’s access to health services, and the recent structuring of service flow, a measure that aims to reduce waiting times, identify early cases and favor better treatment conditions for disease remission in the target population.