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Título

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF ELDERLY CANCER PATIENTS IN BRAZIL ACCORDING TO THE COUNTRY’S GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, FROM 2010 TO 2019

Introdução

It’s estimated that 26 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed worldwide by 2030 and that more than half of those will occur on the elderly. Therefore, the understanding of this disease’s epidemiology is essential to the proper screening, care, and referral within the healthcare system.

Objetivo

To describe the epidemiology of malignant neoplasm on the Brazilian elderly, according to the geographic regions in which the patient received hospital care, from 2010 to 2019.

Método

An ecological observational study was conducted from 2010 to 2019. Data such as age, gender, race, family history of cancer and the stage of the disease after the first treatment was collected from the Cancer Hospital Records by states and subsequently divided according to geographic regions.

Resultado

Over fifty percent (50,59%) of the cases happened on the Southeast region of Brazil. People aged between 60 and 64 were the ones most affected in all regions, except for the Northeast – in which the age group most afflicted was 65 to 69. On the matter of gender, males were the majority in all regions. In the North, Northeast and Midwest regions, most patients declared themselves brown, while in the South, white – the Southeast, on the other hand, had 57,64% of their registries missing this information (São Paulo being the epitome of this, the rate getting up to 100,00%). The data regarding family history of cancer was also absent from most records all over the country – in the Midwest the percentage of this was 74,16% whilst, in the Southeast, 73,25%. In reference to the stage of the disease after the first treatment, the Northeast (with 26,82%), the Midwest (23,90%), the Southeast (64,72%) and the South (27,14%) all exhibited high percentages of missing data, whereas in the North (where this percentage got as low as 8,49%) 32,78% of the patients found themselves with their disease stable after the first treatment.

Conclusão

The sixth decade of life was the most affected one, as well as the male gender. Concerning race, it was found that there was a nonuniformity of results while comparing regions. Even though the one with most cases, the Southeast also stood out as the one with the higher amount of missing data from the records, particularly pertaining race, family history of cancer and the stage of the disease after the first treatment.

Palavras-chave

Epidemiology; Neoplasms; Elderly.

Área

Oncologia - Políticas Públicas, Acesso, Farmacoeconomia e Gestão em Saúde