Oral cancer mortality- Havana, 2001-2010
Keywords:
oral cancer, mortality, levels of mortality, morbidity.Abstract
Introduction: Oral cancer is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality.
Objective: Determine the levels of mortality in Havana province from 2001 to 2010.
Method: A descriptive study on oral cancer mortality was carried out in the population of Havana from 2001 to 2010. Deaths caused by cancer were included as the basic cause, according to the Center for Population and Development Studies of the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Cuba and the health directing office in Havana. Variables: years, age, sex, localization and municipalities. Indicators: crude rate and adjusted rate; specific rate per sex; per groups of ages, variation of mortality percentage, crude rate of mortality and standard reason of mortality.
Results: The oral cancer mortality percentage increased, the female rate was higher in 2001 compared to 2010. The most common site was the base of the tongue. The largest rate decrease was in Habana Vieja municipality (-3.73%).
Conclusions: In general increased crude mortality rates per oral cancer and sex may be associated with changes in the structure of the province population; the location does not differ from that reported in the country and in the reviewed literature; the change in population structure, population size and its changes affect the behavior of mortality rates in municipalities.
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