TCC Felipe de Paula Maçaneiro - UFSC

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ABSTRACT
Objective: Analize time trends in cancer mortality in Santa Catarina (SC), Brazil, during the
period of 1996 to 2005.
Method: Mortality data by year, age, sex and underlying cause of death were analized. The
simple linear regression technique was used to evaluate the trend of standardized death rates
(direct method, using the population of SC in 2007 as the standard).
Results: The most frequent sites of tumors in Santa Catarina residents, from 1996 to 2005,
were lungs, stomach and colon/rectum, in both sexes; considering men, esophagus and
prostate apear; and in females, breast and cervix of the uterus. Standardized death rates
presented a rising trend for all malignant neoplasms in both sexes, as did cancer of prostate
and esophagus in men; and decreasing trend in mortality rates due to cervix of the uterus
cancer in women. The standardized death rates of breast cancer presented a stable trend. Still,
there was a decreasing trend in those rates by stomach cancer in both sexes.
Conclusions: Considering the most frequent types of cancer, with the biggest death rates, we
can note that most of them are related to environmental factors or related to a constant
hormonal stimulation. They are previsible types of cancer, that when they cannot be
prevented, can be detected in earlier phases by structured programs, that improve the
situation.