Caracterização do perfil de mortalidade por câncer na população infanto-juvenil do Estado da Paraíba.

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.