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- Title
Incidencia de cáncer en el Área Metropolitana de Bucaramanga, 2000-2004.
- Authors
Uribe Pérez, Claudia Janeth; Meza Durán, Erika Eliana
- Abstract
Cancer is one of the most common chronic diseases that cause high morbidity and mortality. In the evaluation of all illness and its impact on the community, a surveillance system becomes necessary to allows us to know its incidence. Cancer surveillance is achieved by the population-based cancer registry. Methodology : The Population Based Cancer Registry of Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga (RPC-AMB) collected information from the years 2000 to 2004, in patients with any malignant cancer the which include both invasive and in situ behavior in addition to reside within this geographical area . The Cancer Registry also collects data on brain and nervous system tumors classified as benign or those that have uncertain behavior. Basal cell cancers of the skin were included during the two first years as well as all the intraepithelial neoplasm of the cervix. Active collections of information at all sources by registry staff were made (Hospitals, Health care institutions, especially oncology centers and Pathology and Hematology Laboratories and some specialist in oncology attention). The inclusion approaches are verified and collects data on specific sociodemographic information (age, gender, residence, place of birth, etc.) and on the anatomic site of the tumor, the cell type of the cancer, behavior and extension on each individual diagnosed with cancer. Each case was coded using the International Classification of Diseases Oncology Third Edition (ICDO -3), for topographical and morphological code. The data was entered into a computer with CanReg-4 software that is a configurable computer program designed for cancer registration in population-based registries and was provided as a service by the Descriptive Epidemiology Unit to members of the International Association of Cancer Registries. This software provides the number of cancer cases (frequency) and the incidence rates. The quality control included exhaustiveness of the cases and information, verification of the diagnosis, control of duplicated cases, as well as code and typing quality. It was not possible to include the cases obtained on the death certificate. Results: from 2000 to 2004, the Cancer Registry collected data on 5,939 new cases (without basal cell carcinoma), equivalent to diagnose 3.3 new cases per day. Every year, 858 residents of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga died by cancer (average of 2,3 cases per day); 57.0% of the cases affected females (3,365 cases) and 43.0% males (2,574 cases), the relation female:male is 1.3:1. The annual crude incidence rate in male is 107.7/100,000 inhabitants, and in female is 128.2/ 100,000 inhabitants; the age-adjusted incidence rate (TEE) it is 162.6 and 146.5 for 100,000 inhabitants, respectively. Excluding basal cell carcinoma, the most frequent cancer in males is prostate cancer (TEE 45.9/100,000 inh), followed by stomach cancer (TEE 18.3/100,000 inh) and the skin squamous cell carcinoma (14.7/100,000 hab); among women, the most frequent cancer is breast cancer (TEE 37.3/100,000 hab), followed by cervical cancer (TEE 19.9/100,000 hab) and colon and rectal cancer (TEE 9.8/100,000 hab). Conclusions : Compared with the GLOBOCAN 2002 data (A project that estimates the incidence, prevalence and mortality of 27 cancer types for all the countries of the world in the year 2002), the breast cancer in this region is superior to that estimated for the country, while the rates on uterine cervix are very inferior to that estimated. The results of the other localizations in general are similar to expected.
- Subjects
BUCARAMANGA (Colombia); COLOMBIA; CANCER; DISEASE prevalence; BREAST cancer; CERVICAL cancer
- Publication
MedUNAB, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 3, p147
- ISSN
0123-7047
- Publication type
Article