Prostate cancer temporal and regional trends in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde-SUS) is the universal public healthcare system of Brazil that maintains a nationwide database of its patients. Our primary objective was to analyze regional and temporal trends, while our secondary goal was to establish correlations between states' health economy status and their prostate cancer (PCa) epidemiology.

Methods

We analyzed Brazil's nationwide data on prostate cancer (PCa) incidence, mortality, and care gathered between 2013 and 2021 by the Information Technology Department of SUS (DATA-SUS), updated monthly using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code.

Results

In the period, 273,933 new cases of PCa and 135,336 PCa deaths were reported in men aged 50 years or over in

SUBMITTER: Jalalizadeh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413836 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature