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标题：Mortalidade por cancer de próstata no Maranho no século XXI
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作者：Tarcísio Pires Ribeiro ; Alessandro Santana Padilha ; Carlos Martins Neto 等
期刊名称：Research, Society and Development
电子版ISSN：2525-3409
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
期号：8
页码：1-12
DOI：10.33448/rsd-v10i8.17621
语种：English
出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：Introduction: Socioeconomic and racial differentials and access to prevention, diagnosis and early treatment measures have increased mortality from prostate cancer. Objective: Describe mortality from prostate cancer in the State of Maranho, according to socioeconomic and demographic variables. Methods: Descriptive study with 4,238 deaths from prostate cancer, CID 10-C61, which occurred from 2000 to 2017 among men ≥40 years old. The absolute and relative frequencies were estimated. Age curves of proportional mortality by color/race and age, and box-plot for the age of death by color/race were drawn up. Results: Prostate cancer accounted for 20.0% of deaths from cancer. Predominates among browns,> 80 years old, with low education, with death at home and in the region outside the capital So Luís. There was a worse mortality structure for browns and blacks in all years, with a median age of death lower than in whites. Conclusions: There was a profile of individual and contextual characteristics associated with deaths, indicating the need for actions broader prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this cancer.
关键词：Cancer;Mortality;Prostate.