Five-year survival and associated factors in women treated for cervical cancer at a reference hospital in the Brazilian Amazon

Cervical cancer (CC) is the most common type of cancer in women and is the third leading cause of death in most developing countries, causing more than 288,000 deaths in women worldwide each year. The most favourable survival rate is in developed countries, since CC mortality has recently declined i...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2017-11, Vol.12 (11), p.e0187579-e0187579
Hauptverfasser: Carneiro, Saul Rassy, Fagundes, Marcela de Araújo, do Rosário, Pricila de Jesus Oliveira, Neves, Laura Maria Tomazi, Souza, Givago da Silva, Pinheiro, Maria da Conceição Nascimento
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Zusammenfassung:Cervical cancer (CC) is the most common type of cancer in women and is the third leading cause of death in most developing countries, causing more than 288,000 deaths in women worldwide each year. The most favourable survival rate is in developed countries, since CC mortality has recently declined in those countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the survival rate and associated factors of CC patients at a reference hospital in the Amazon region. The patient sample included records of 339 patients with cervical cancer who had been hospitalized in Belém, Pará, Brazil from January 2005 to December 2010; the socioeconomic and clinical data were collected between June and September 2016. A survival rate of approximately 84% was observed, and it was found that disease stage (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0187579