Objective: to estimate specific five-year survival in women diagnosed with cervical cancer living in the municipalities of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Methods: Retrospective cohort study with information from the Cuiabá Population-Based Cancer Registry and the Mortality Information System. To estimate the probability of specific survival in five years, the Kaplan-Meier estimator and the log-r...
Objective: To analyses lung cancer incidence and mortality trends to gender and age group in Grande Cuiabá between 2000 to 2016. Methods: Study of times series applying incidence data from the Population-Based Cancer Registry of Cuiabá, and mortality data from Mortality Information System. Annual Percentage Change and the Average Annual Percentage Change were calculated in the incidence and mortality rate throu...
Objective: To analyze five types of cancer health region in the state of Mato Grosso disaggregated by sex. Methods: A descriptive ecological study of the health regions of the state of Mato Grosso using two population-based data sets the incidence of cancer from the Mato Grosso interior and Cuiabá population-based cancer registries. Age-adjusted annual incidence rates were calculated for the 1960 world populati...
OBJECTIVES: Childhood cancer mortality has substantially declined worldwide as a result of significant advances in global cancer care. Because limited information is available in Brazil, we analyzed trends in childhood cancer mortality in five Brazilian regions over 29 years. METHODS: Data from children 0-14 years old were extracted from the Health Mortality Information System for 1979 through 2008. Age-adjuste...