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Título

DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF COLON MALIGNANCY BETWEEN 2010 AND 2020 IN BRAZIL

Introdução

The colonic neoplasm is a frequent disease by sporadic factors or genetics factors. It is considered the main cancer in the gastrointestinal system, with a higher prevalence in individuals older than 50 years, in male sex and in African descendents. The earlier detection of adenomatous polyp is a key lead signal. In Brazil, only in 2019, 20,576 individuals died of colonic neoplasm, which confirms the importance of knowing the epidemiology of this disease in this country.

Objetivo

Identify the epidemiologic and clinical profile of the individuals that were hospitalized with Colonic neoplasm during the years of 2010 and 2020 in Brazil.

Método

This study is a time ecologic analysis which embraced patients that were hospitalized with Colonic neoplasm during the years of 200 and 2020 in Brazil. The variants of sex, age and ethinicity were colected based on the review of the eletronic data obtained in the DataSUS’ plataform. The data were stored in Excel and reviewed in SPSS. The categoric variants were expressed in absolute values, relative frequency (percentage) and mode.

Resultado

Hospitalizations resulting from malignant colon neoplasia comprise a total of 449,104 in Brazil from 2010 to 2020. The region with the highest number of hospitalizations was the Southeast (46.2%), followed by the South (32.5%), as the region with the lowest number of hospitalizations was in the North (2.25%). Regarding the age group, the highest number of admissions between 60 to 69 years with a total of 124,322 cases, followed by the age group from 50 to 59 years (107,458 admissions) and 70 to 79 years (80,366 admissions), the three age groups above, corresponding to 69.3% of the total number of hospitalizations carried out in the period 2010 to 2020. The variation between the sexes was subtle, with females being the most affected in terms of the total number of hospitalizations for colon cancer, comprising 50,2 % of cases. The ethnicity with the highest number of hospitalizations corresponded to the white ethnicity, with a total of 54.3%, followed by the brown ethnicity (26.7%).

Conclusão

When analyzing the data presented about the occurrence of malignant colon neoplasia and the high prevalence of this kind of cancer in Brazil, it becomes evident there is a difference between the results of the literature and the results obtained in the study, demonstrating an important topic for future analyses, with the view to align strategies for prevention and treatment of the pathology.

Palavras-chave

Malignant neoplasm, Colon cancer, Adenomatosis polips