Tendência temporal da mortalidade por neoplasia prostática no Brasil de 2001-2012.

Abstract

Introduction: Prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer in men worldwide and in Brazil is the second leading cause of death among these individuals, with the risk factors age, heredity and ethnicity. Objectives: To analyze the distribution of mortality from prostate cancer in Brazil and its time trend over the period 2001-2012, describe the characteristics of victims who died from cancer of the prostate, identifying the Brazilian region with the highest coefficient and perform a comparison between mortality rates. Method: study epidemiological retrospective with a quantitative approach, exploratory descriptive, secondary data held in Datasus site, based on data from the Mortality Information System, tabulated by region, year of occurrence, color, age and state civil and analyzed by simple descriptive statistics, the proportion having as parameter and as a measure of central tendency average. Results: Brazilian region with the highest record of deaths from prostate Ca was the Southeast, with 46.37% of the national average, a total of 33,213 cases over the last 11 years, taking the year 2012 as the most significant, with a value of 5884 cases. The age group with the highest number of deaths in all regions was 60 to 79 years proceeded by aged ≥ 80 years and ignored. Whose men married white and color were the most they had died by this type of neoplasia. Conclusion: The record of cases of prostate cancer is an important tool for evaluating indicators accents on ways to prevent, capture men in service and installation of early diagnosis is required, fitting to professionals in health better performance, well as assistance in the administrative part, to enable better and more complete health care for the man.