Cancer-related mortality in Peru: Trends from 2003 to 2016

In the last decade, Latin American (LA) countries, like Peru, have undergone an epidemiological transition that has changed the pattern of oncological cases. Given that Peru's oncological pattern could illustrate those of other LA countries, we aimed at determining trends and changes in cancer-...

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Published in:PloS one 2020-02, Vol.15 (2), p.e0228867-e0228867
Main Authors: Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica H, Tenorio-Mucha, Janeth, Villarreal-Zegarra, David, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo, Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Adults
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Brain
Brain cancer
Brain tumors
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cause of Death
Cervix
Child
Child, Preschool
Childhood
Children
Chronic illnesses
Codes
Data analysis
Epidemiology
Fatalities
Female
Gastric cancer
Girls
Health aspects
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Information management
Leukemia
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Lymphoma
Lymphomas
Male
Medical diagnosis
Medicine and Health Sciences
Men
Middle Aged
Mortality
Murders & murder attempts
Neoplasms - mortality
Nervous system
Nervous system tumors
People and places
Peru - epidemiology
Prostate
Registries
Sex Factors
Stomach
Trends
Tumors
Women
Womens health
Young Adult
Youth
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Summary:In the last decade, Latin American (LA) countries, like Peru, have undergone an epidemiological transition that has changed the pattern of oncological cases. Given that Peru's oncological pattern could illustrate those of other LA countries, we aimed at determining trends and changes in cancer-related mortality by age and sex in Peru between 2003 and 2016. A secondary data analysis using national deaths registries was conducted. Categories were created according to the 27 most frequent sites of presentation of cancer. We found that deaths attributed to cancer increased from 15.4% of all deaths in 2003 to 18.1% in 2016 (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0228867