Breast cancer trends in Chile: Incidence and mortality rates (2007-2018).

ABSTRACT: Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common cancers in women worldwide and in Chile. Due to the lack of a Chilean national cancer registry, there is partial information on the status of BC in the country. We aim to estimate BC incidence and mortality rates by health care providers and regions for Chilean women. We used two public anonymized databases provided by the Ministry of Health: the national death and hospital discharges datasets. We considered a cohort of 58,254 and 16,615 BC hospital discharges and deaths for the period 2007-2018. New BC cases increased by 43.6%, from 3,785 in 2007 to 5,435 in 2018. Total BC deaths increased by 33.6% from 1,158 to 1,547 during the same period. Age-adjusted incidence rates were stable over time, with an average rate of 44.0 cases/100,000 women (SD

SUBMITTER: Madariaga B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11210749 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature