Perfil clínico e sociodemográfico de crianças e adolescentes com tumor cerebral em um hospital público.

Abstract

The infant cancer is a set of diseases which has as characteristics disorderly growth of cells, which multiplies in a quick successive way in children and teenagers. The brain tumor between those young is considered the second responsible for deaths on diseases, and it’s the solid tumor to show higher prevalence. Objective: Present the prevalence and characteristics of clinical sociodemographic profile of children and teenagers with brain tumor in a public hospital of Borboremaregion in Paraiba. Methodology: It’s an documentary retrospective study, with indirect vision, by analysis of secondary data through records of children and teenagers diagnosed with brain tumor who were attended on the public hospital of Borborema region in Paraiba on January of 2014. The sample was constituted on 14 records of children and teenagers diagnosed with neoplasms of the Central Nervous System (CNS) attended on the hospital related between the periods of 2008 to 2013. All data collected were grouped in a quantitative way using the software Microsoft Excel 2007, which were organized in charts and the analysis were discussed according to the pertinent literature. Results and discussion: On this essay, the neoplasm of the CNS are more common between females with 64,3% in relation to males with 35,7%, and more common on an age range of one to 11 years representing 71,4% of the cases. In relation to types of those neoplasm the bigger prevalence happened between the gliomas with 35,8%, mainly the astrocytomas,followed by the medulloblastomas with 28,6% and, ependymomas and craniopharyngiomas both with 7,1%. The main symptoms saw during the analysis of the data were pain, nausea, vomiting and seizures with 28,6%. Talking about the treatment, those are determined according with the type of the neoplasm, its localization and its dissemination while the therapeutics more used on the related hospital were surgery, radiotheraphy and chemotherapy concomitantly, in which is observed a percentage of 28,6% of the analyzed cases. From 14 records analyzed, four patients (28,6%) died during the time of the research. Final Considerations: On the big scene more research related to the theme are important for a specialized and adequate assistance, fetching a better quality of life for those children and teenagers during the diagnoses, treatment and if possible search for a cure.