ZUZA, A. L. D.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8695178583644237; ZUZA, Andrio Lincoln Delgado.
Abstract:
Cancer is one of the most recurrent chronic diseases in Brazil, with
emphasis on childhood and youth cancer, which among this public presents a high
mortality rate. Despite the alarming rate, INCA presents satisfactory data
for childhood cancer in recent years, with a reduction in mortality and with a
increasingly positive prognosis. The aim of this work was to investigate the
distribution of infant and youth mortality rates induced by different types of
cancer (C 00 – C97) in the state of Paraíba. The present exploratory study
descriptive, was developed from a documental analysis, of a time series with
data extracted from INCA's Online Mortality Atlas. In the results it was possible
observe the frequency of cancer mortality among children and youth,
regardless of sex, during the period from 1991 to 2020. This study was able to
demonstrate that the types of cancer with the highest frequency of infant and youth mortality
in the state of Paraíba, for the most part, in brain tumors and leukemias,
whether they are of the lymphoid, myeloid or cellular type. During the search
identified a higher frequency of brain cancer in children of the same sex
male, which constitutes about 40% of deaths from neoplasms in the last decade.
Thus, it was possible to conclude that cancer mortality for children and adolescents
was concentrated for four types of cancer, requiring planning that
control the increase in death rates for this public.
