Oral and pharyngeal cancer mortality in Brazil between 2008 and 2019: descriptive study

• Autor(a) principal: Campos Dell'Orto, Zeferino
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ribondi Marcarini, Gustavo Alexandre, Ferreira Costa, Maria Vithória, Dias Lopes, Paula Gabrielle, de Souza Queiroga, Aline, de Freitas Espeschit, Isis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: HU Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/hurevista/article/view/37587
• topic: Epidemiology, Descriptive; Cancer; Oral Health; Public Health; Health Information Systems; Epidemiologia; Neoplasias Bucais; Neoplasias Faríngeas

Introduction: Oral and pharyngeal cancer is a multifactorial-etiology disease, which represents around 3% of cancer cases from all over the world, being the 5th most prevalent amongst men in Brazil. Objective: Analyzing oral and pharyngeal cancer mortality in Brazil and its regions between 2008 and 2019. Material and Methods: Data were obtained from the Mortality Information System (SIM) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). It was carried out a descriptive analysis and general mortality rates and rates for gender, age, and anatomical site were assessed. A statistical analysis regarding temporal trends was also conducted by simple linear regression. Results: Over the years studied, deaths increased by 33.25%; the average mortality rate was around 3.64/100,000 habitants. In that way, the temporal trend showed an annual rise of 0.06 deaths per 100,000 habitants. Furthermore, deaths were higher in the Southeast region (49.38%), in the age groups between 50 and 79 years old (73.31%), married people (41.19%), white individuals (53.49%), people of lower education levels -from 1 to 3 education years- (25.73%) and male gender (78.97%). Additionally, the male mortality rate was 3.75 times higher than the female one. On top of that, the mortality rate for men has been increasing steadily, being an average 5.83/100,000 habitants, in contrast to women’s rate (1.51/100,000). Conclusion: Finally, the present study shows that oral and pharyngeal cancer deaths in Brazil are more frequent amongst white men, from 50 to 69 years old, married, with lower education levels, located in the oropharynx, and in the South and Southeast regions. However, those rates show a trend for annual increases, especially in the Northeast.