Mamografia: infraestrutura, cobertura, qualidade e risco do câncer radionduzido em rastreamento oportunístico no estado de Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: CORRÊA, Rosangela da Silveira
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1534
• topic: Câncer de mama; Programas de rastreamento; Mamografia; Serviços de saúde; Proteção radiológica; Neoplasias induzidas por radiação; Breast cancer; Screening programs; Mammography; Health services; Radiation protection; Radiation-induced cancer; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::EPIDEMIOLOGIA

Among the available methods for the diagnosis and early detection of breast cancer, the most indicated for mass screening is the mammography. To guarantee its effectiveness, this exam needs to be performed using high quality standards and the lowest radiation dose possible. Therefore, the present research aimed to assess the infrastructure and performance of the equipments available at the mammography services in the state of Goiás, regarding coverage, quality, and radiological protection (dose) of patients, in order to provide early detection of breast cancer by an opportunistic screening. A prospective study was carried out, from 2007 to 2010, to observe the diagnostic imaging services which perform mammography, initially for the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) and, in 2010, the services of the private system were included. Data collection was divided into two phases: the first, to collect information on infrastructure and the second, to apply tests in order to evaluate the performance characteristics of equipment and materials used. We calculated the conformity of the assessed items in terms of quality of image and equipment performance and estimated the average dose in glandular tissue and the risk of radioinduced carcinogenesis, as well as the risk of mortality by radioinduced tumors. The results were presented in four articles. In the first, we showed that mammography coverage in the state of Goiás in 2008 was 66% among women in the 50 69-year age group, considering biennial mammography. In the second article, we concluded that the implementation of the Mammography Quality Control Program was effective to achieve better quality mammography in SUS services. In the beginning of our research, only 2.9% of SUS services were within the desired range of quality and, after two interventions (2008 and 2009), 20% of them reached it. The results of the third article, in which we verified the infrastructure and quality of services performing mammography, both for SUS and private systems, showed no difference in quality of exams between them. However, the evaluation between types of technology used showed difference between radiation doses (p < 0.001) applied during mammography. In the fourth article, we estimated the benefit risk balance of screening mammography carried out in the state of Goiás in 2010. The excess absolute risk of radioinduced cancer and the lifetime risk presented significant difference for types of technology (p < 0.001) and types of health system (p < 0.019) according to the age group of screening. The ratio lives saved/lives lost was 75.5/1 for screening at the 40 70-year age group and 166.5/1 at the 50 70-year age group. The results showed that coverage of the 50 69-year age group in the state of Goiás is near the recommended standards for the beginning of organized screenings. However, when assessed per regional health unit, coverage was non-uniform, presenting high concentration of equipments and exames at the Central Regional. The initial evaluation of equipment performance indicated the need to implant actions for controlling mammography quality and risk. The actions of the Mammography Quality Control Program proved to be effective to enhance the quality of mammography, although the same does not remain true for the radiation dose used in mammography. These doses are lower in conventional mammography equipments than in those coupled to image digitization systems. Regarding radiological protection, screening women who are 50 70 years old, when performed biennially using conventional mammography equipments, presented more benefit.