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- Title
Epidemiología del cáncer en adolescentes de 15 y 16 años.
- Authors
Juárez-Ocaña, Servando; Palma-Padilla, Virginia; González-Miranda, Guadalupe; Carreón-Cruz, Rogelio; Mejía-Aranguré, Juan Manuel; Fajardo-Gutiérrez, Arturo
- Abstract
Objective: to present the frequency of different types of cancer in adolescents with 15 and 16-year-old treated at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in Mexico City (MC) hospitals. Methods: it was an observational and prolective study. During January 1 of 1996 to December 31 of 2005, were analyzed new cases of adolescents of 15 and 16-year-old with malignant neoplasms in adolescents at IMSS. The neo-plasms were grouped according with the International Classification of Childhood Cancer; they were stratified by age, sex, and place of residence, and the frequency of these variables were obtained. Results: a total of 207 cases were registered. Leukemias were more frequent with 55 cases (26.6 %); the second place was for bone tumors with 36 cases (17.4 %) and the third place were lymphomas with 32 cases (15.5 %). There were not cases of retinoblastoma and renal tumors; only 8 cases of carcinomas (3.9 %) were registered. The greatest frequency was observed in males with 116 cases (56.0 %), with male/female ratio of 1.3:1. Mexico City and State of Mexico were more frequent places of residence with 70.5 % of cases. Near of forty nine percent of cases (48.8 %) with solid tumors were diagnosed in III or IV stages. Conclusions: the pattern of cancer was different from older adolescents (15 to 19- year-old), it is necessary to conduct studies of survey in order to determine epidemiology of cancer in the Mexican adolescents.
- Subjects
MEXICO City (Mexico); MEXICO; EPIDEMIOLOGY of cancer; CANCER in adolescence; LEUKEMIA; BONE tumors; LYMPHOMAS
- Publication
Revista Medica del IMSS, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
0443-5117
- Publication type
Article