Introduction: To describe time trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Portugal, overall and by region. Methods: Incidence data were retrieved from the Registos Oncológicos Regionais (RORs) for the period 1998-2010. Mortality data were obtained from the World Health Organization (1980-2003; 2007-2011) and from Statistics Portugal (2004-2006; 2012-2015; 1991-2015 for regional data). JoinPoint analys...
Background: Textbook Oncologic Outcome (TOO) serves as a comprehensive quality metric, representing the optimal outcome for oncological patients undergoing therapeutic surgery and, consequently, indicating the quality of healthcare provided. Methods: The TOO variables were applied to the entire cohort of adult patients (≥18 years of age) diagnosed with esophagus, stomach, pancreas, colon, rectum, urinary bladde...
Background: Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in Portugal, which imposes an economic burden in the restricted health care budget. The aim of this study was to estimate the effects of age, stage, gender, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, Charlson Comorbidity Index and category of health care activity on the average colorectal cancer treatment costs based on hospital records ...
Esophageal cancer (EC) is a common cancer in Mozambique, with esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (ESCC) being the most frequent subtype of this cancer. Little is known about the impact of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on this pathology. The main goal of this study was to assess the association between EC and HIV infection. Methods: A case-control study was conducted, in 2018, at Maputo Central Hospita...
We describe the cases of cancer registered between 2018 and 2019 in the Oncological Registry of Hospital Dr. Baptist D’Souza. Sao Vicente Island, Cape Verde. There is also a critical assessment of its quality and an action plan. The five most registered types of cancer, in order of frequency, in the period (2018-2019) were: breast, prostate, oesophagus, cervix and stomach. We found that the oncological registra...
Introduction: In Portugal, a colorectal cancer screening program based on faecal immunochemical test followed by colonoscopy was shown to be cost-effective for individuals between 50 and 74 years old. We report the first findings of the implementation of a population-based program In Northern Portugal.Material and Methods: In the pilot phase, eligible subjects were allocated either to a direct mailing invitatio...
On page 168, Table 2, where it reads:On page 168, Table 2, where it reads:Advanced phenotype rate* [n (%)] 35 (49.0) 10 (52.0) 25 (47.0) 0.606Carcinoma** [n (%)] 2 (2.0) 1 (5.0) 1 (2.0)It should read:Advanced phenotype rate [n (%)] 179 (22.0) 57 (30.0) 35 (21.0) 29 (21.0) 24 (14.0) 34 (24.0)Carcinoma [n (%)] 3 (0.4) 2 1On page 168, Table 3, where it reads:ADR (%) 80.0 -Advanced adenoma (%) 44.0 15.9It should re...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and pathological characteristics of the invasive breast cancers diagnosed in women participant in the beginning of breast cancer screening programme, compared to cancers detected in non-participants and in not invited women. Data was retrieved from the population-based North Region Cancer Registry and from the organized population-based Breast Cancer Scre...
Longitudinal studies are needed to characterise the burden of second primary malignancies among cancer survivors. Therefore, we quantified the incidence rate and cumulative incidence of second primary cancers (SPC) and standardised incidence ratios (SIR) in a population-based cohort of subjects diagnosed with a first primary cancer (FPC). We evaluated a cohort of cancer patients from the Portuguese North Region...