Tendencias de la mortalidad por cáncer de mama en México, 1980-2009

Abstract

Breast cancer has become an important health risk for women worldwide.The important growth of breast cancer-related deaths within those caused by malign tumors throughout the globe went past the 460 000 in 2008,becoming the deadliest disease worldwide. Demographic changes and lifestyles have modified the population exposure to risk factors of maladies such as cancer, and since 1980 breast cancer mortality has remained on an upward tendency, surpassing cervical cancer in 2006. After analyzing mortality rates along 30 years in Mexican women 25 or more years old, differences by state and age-groups are apparent. Although this cause of death has been associated with a highest regional development, some changes are taking place,since the number of deaths is also growing among women of less-developed regions in the country,as showed in this work. Mexico faces an evident challenge regarding breast cancer. Our country requires to join efforts and implement programs aimed at teaching self-care of health among the population,promoting healthier lifestyles, and reshaping our diagnostic infrastructure to achieve earlier detection and provide proper treatment.

Cancer Mortality in Older Mexican Individuals (2000 – 2010)

“…Recently, HPV vaccinations have been included in national vaccination campaigns [15]; therefore, this favorable tendency towards decreasing mortality due to cervical cancer is likely to continue in the future. Although different to our results, the recent increase in breast cancer mortality of Mexican woman has been also observed previously in woman ≥65 year-old [16]. These data indicated that much effort is needed to reverse the significant increase in mortality due to breast cancer.…”

Female breast cancer mortality in Brazil and its regions

“…It was noted that, although the number of deaths from this cause had gradually increased over time nationwide, in some states of the country this increase was extremely significant. 27 In Portugal, there was a change in breast cancer mortality since the beginning of the 1990s, with sharper declines in districts with higher mortality rates. The authors considered that improvements in early detection of the disease and access to effective treatments could justify this change, but the characteristics of the access, screening and care of patients in different Portuguese districts would be essential for understanding differences observed at regional level.…”

Hospitalization and mortality in Mexico due to breast cancer since its inclusion in the catastrophic expenditures scheme

“…3,34 However, this study is one of the first that takes into account the insurance scheme, which gives an added value to generate an hypotheses about the differential impact of the inclusion of comprehensive BC treatment between FPGC populations with and without social security.…”

“…Although Mexico is one of the 10 countries with the lowest incidence and mortality rates in the Americas, 1,2 standardized mortality rates per 100 000 women aged 25 years and older in 2009 ranged between 9.10 and 26.69 in the individual states. 3 A trend of increasing standardized mortality rates, which rose from 11.7 to 17.0 deaths per 100 000 women aged 25 years and over between 1980 and 2009, was observed. 3 There are no figures available on the incidence of BC because Mexico does not have a histopathological cancer registry.…”

“…3 A trend of increasing standardized mortality rates, which rose from 11.7 to 17.0 deaths per 100 000 women aged 25 years and over between 1980 and 2009, was observed. 3 There are no figures available on the incidence of BC because Mexico does not have a histopathological cancer registry. However, less than 10% of BC cases are estimated to be detected in a timely manner.…”