PROFILE OF CERVICAL CANCER MORTALITY IN BRAZIL - PERIOD 2010 TO 2015

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: CERVICAL CANCER IS CAUSED BY INFECTION OF THE HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS (HPV) WITH MOST REPLICATES. THE ONSET OF EARLY SEX LIFE, MULTIPLICITY OF PARTNERS AND POOR EATING HABITS INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER. (INCA, 2016). ACCORDING TO THE MORTALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM, IN 2013 THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM CERVICAL CANCER WAS 5,430 AND IN 2015, 5725 DEATHS (INCA, 2018). OBJECTIVE: TO TRACE THE MORTALITY PROFILE IN BRAZIL, CENTRAL WEST REGION AND GOI�S, FROM 2010 TO 2015. METHODOLOGY: THIS IS A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY WITH A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, USING DATASUS SECONDARY DATA. DATA FOR THE STUDY WERE OBTAINED BY CONSULTING THE FOLLOWING SIM DATABASES (MORTALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM), MADE AVAILABLE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS OF THE UNIFIED HEALTH SYSTEM (DATASUS), SUPPORT ROOM FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH (SAGE), AND NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (INCA), SCIENTIFIC AND MANUAL ARTICLES. PUBLIC OR SECONDARY DOMAIN DATA WERE USED, AND IT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO SUBMIT TO THE RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE. THE STUDY POPULATION CONSISTED OF DATA FROM WOMEN IN BRAZIL, IN THE CENTRAL WEST REGION OF GOI�S, OBSERVING AND DESCRIBING THE PROPORTIONAL INCIDENCE OF CERVICAL CANCER IN RELATION TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS, USING DETERMINANTS SUCH AS AGE, COLOR, BASIC CAUSE OF DEATH, PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND OCCURRENCE IN THE PERIOD FROM 2010 TO 2015. THE DATA COLLECTED WERE APPLIED TO THE MICROSOFT�® EXCEL 2010 PROGRAM FOR TABULATION AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WITH ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE FREQUENCY AND ARE PRESENTED THROUGH TABLES AND GRAPHS. RESULTS: IN THE POPULATION OF THE CENTRAL-WESTERN REGION OF BRAZIL, IT IS POSSIBLE TO EVIDENCE DEATHS CAUSED BY CERVICAL CANCER ACCORDING TO DATA COLLECTED IN THE YEARS 2010-2015, FROM THE AGES OF 15 TO 19 YEARS, WITH 1 DEATH RECORDED IN THIS PERIOD, FOLLOWED BY AGES RANGING FROM 20 TO 29 YEARS OLD, WITH 65 (0.81%) DEATHS, WITH AGES RANGING FROM 30 TO 39 YEARS OLD (4.61%), AGED 40 TO 49 YEARS, A TOTAL OF 527 DEATHS (9, THE AGE AT WHICH WOMEN AGED 50 TO 59 YEARS ACCOUNTED FOR 595 (15.09%) DEATHS, AGED 60 TO 69 YEARS, A TOTAL OF 446 WOMEN (19.69%), AGED 70 TO 79 YEARS MADE 335 (28.48%) OF WOMEN DIED OF CERVICAL CANCER. BETWEEN 2010 AND 2014, IT WAS POSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY ABOUT 730 DEATHS RELATED TO UTERINE CANCER IN THE STATE OF GOI�S, AND IN 2013, THE LOWEST NUMBER OF DEATHS OCCURRED IN 2013 AND IN 2014, A HIGHER NUMBER WITH 167. FINALLY, IT IS CONCLUDED THAT PREVENTION IS THE MOST EFFICIENT METHOD OF COMBATING CERVICAL CANCER CAN BE EASILY PREVENTED WITH PUBLIC POLICIES AIMED AT RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PERIODIC VISIT TO THE DOCTOR AND STILL MEASURES SUCH AS VACCINATION EVEN BEFORE INTERCOURSE.