Temporal trend of Mortality by Oral Cancer and Coverage of Primary Attention in the State of Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Atty, Adriana Tavares de Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Guimarães, Raphael Mendonça, Andrade, Carla Lourenço Tavares de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbc.inca.gov.br/index.php/revista/article/view/2082
• topic: neoplasias bucais/mortalidade; estudos de séries temporais; mouth neoplasms/mortality; time series studies; neoplasias de la boca/mortalidad; estudios de series temporales

Introduction: Oral cancer is usually diagnosed late, compromising the individuals’ quality of life or causing death. Objective: Check the time trend of mortality by oral cancer in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the coverage of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and oral health teams (OHT). Method: Ecological study with analysis of the time trend of mortality by oral cancer, between 1999 to 2018 and the coverage of the FHS and OHT, in the period from 2002 to 2018, in the State and Health Regions. Generalized linear regression of Prais-Winsten to calculate trends for the state, each Health Region, sex, age group and tumor location was utilized. Results: Declining trends in mortality by oral cancer in the State and in the Metropolitan I and II Regions. In the other Health Regions, it was stationary. The trends of deaths in men, aged 40 to 59 years and 80 years or more were decreasing. In the location of the tumor, there was a decreasing trend among deaths in other and unspecified parts (C06) and a raising trend in mortality by cancer of the Tongue Base (C01). In the coverage of FHS and OHT in most Health Regions and in the State, the trend was rising. Conclusion: Declining trend in oral cancer mortality and the raising trend of FHS and OHT in the State of Rio de Janeiro was not observed for all Health Regions.