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Título

LIPS, ORAL CAVITY AND OROPHARYNX NEOPLASM: ITS RELATION WITH SMOKING AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC PROFILE OF THE HOSPITALIZATIONS IN BRAZIL FROM 2008 TO 2021.

Introdução

Oropharynx cancer is a malign lesion that involve soft palate, the posterior third of the tong, tonsils and posterior and lateral pharynx walls. In general terms, the disease can be categorized in two groups: related to Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and non-related to HPV, which, the last one, has smoking as main risk factor. Worldwide, this neoplasm is the sixth most common, being more prevalent in men.

Objetivo

To analyse the relation between the percentage of current users of tobacco derived products, according to the National Health Research (PNS) 2019 and the taxes of hospitalization by lip, oral cavity and oropharynx cancer per 100 thousand habitants in the Brazilian states from January, 2008 to April, 2021.

Método

The former study was done according to the transversal epidemiologic study model, the data was collected in the DATASUS (data about hospitalizations) database, and the National Health Research 2019 from the Brazilian Statistic Institute database (data of the populational estimates for 2020 and data collected from PNS for 2019).

Resultado

There were 347558 hospitalizations by lip, oral cavity and oropharynx cancer between 2008 and April, 2021, which 71.63% of these cases (n=248959) belong to male sex. It was noticed, when it comes to age groups, a major predominance in the ages between 40 and 69 years (n=236154). The linear regression test did not reveal a significant positive correlation between the percentage of current smokers and the lip, oral cavity and oropharynx cancer tax (r=0.372 and p=0.056). Among the states, was worth to highlight Pará, which has presented the lowest hospitalization tax (n=32.138) and the second lowest percentage of current users of tobacco (n=10.1%), and Pernambuco, that presented the highest hospitalization tax (n=309.121).

Conclusão

Despite many studies show a relation between smoking and lip, oral cavity and oropharynx neoplasm, in this study this correlation was not significative. Many factor can be involved in this results, such as: underreporting of the cases, the kind of study, which cannot isolate risk factors that act independent or synergically with smoking, like alcoholism, in addition to the fact of being data from two different databases. These factor, at last, reinforce the need of more studies to affirm this relation in the Brazilian states.

Palavras-chave

Mouth neoplasms; smoking.