Breast cancer mortality among patients attending a cancer hospital, Vitoria, ES

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Cristina Arthmar Mentz Albrecht¹  Maria Helena Costa Amorim¹  Eliana Zandonade¹  Kátia Viana¹  Juliana Oliosi Calheiros¹ 

关键词: Medical oncology;    Breast neoplasms;    Women's health;    Mortality;    Risk factors;    Brazil;    Oncologia;    Neoplasias da mama;    Saúde da mulher;    Mortalidade;    Fatores de risco;    Brasil;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1415-790X2013000300003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This study aimed to investigate the association between mortality of breast cancer women and the social-demographic and clinical characteristics. During the mortality study of 1,086 women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated from 2000 to 2005 at a cancer hospital in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo, medical records and tumor registration cards were controlled. The Mortality Information System and the Reclink program were used to identify 280 deaths. Patients were classified under death and non-death, and variables percentages were calculated. For variables that showed statistical significance, considering the level of 0.10, the crude and adjusted odds ratio (OR) were calculated by logistic regression model. There was a correlation between mortality and the following variables: women coming from the Unified Health System (p = 0.014; OR = 2.38), negative c-erb B-2 tumor marker (p = 0.027; OR = 2.03), advanced (III and IV) staging (p = 0.001; OR = 6.89 and OR = 17.13, respectively), presence of metastasis (p = 0.001; OR = 18.23) and recurrence (p = 0.010; OR = 3.53). Mortality associated with staging underlines the necessity of warning the population about the benefits of early diagnosis of the disease of cancer.

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