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DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1808031
Pancreatic cancer mortality: an epidemiological analysis using DATASUS
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Introduction: Pancreatic neoplasia is a disease with a very unfavorable prognosis, since it has less than 10% survival rate in 5 years after diagnosis due to its late detection.
Objective: To describe the increasing mortality rate due to pancreatic cancer.
Methodology: Observational study based on data collected from the Department of Information Technology of the Unified Health System (DATASUS), using the TABNET tool. The variables used in this study were the number of deaths from pancreatic cancer in Brazil from 2012 to 2022 and the relationship of these data with race, sex, age group and place of death.
Results: In this 10-year interval, a total of 115,379 deaths due to Pancreatic Cancer were observed, with females (50.3%) more affected than males (49.7%), a male-to-female ratio of 1.01-1, and in white Brazilians than black Brazilians, a different pattern found in the USA, where it is more common in men, a ratio of 1.3-1, and in blacks. As for the most affected Brazilian regions, in decreasing order: Southeast (50.5%), South, Northeast, Midwest and North. A pattern similar to that found in North America, Europe and Asia is observed, in which the most western and industrialized regions are the most affected. Regarding the age group, two peaks are found in the age range, between 60-69 (27.2% years) and 70-79 years (28%). In addition, it is noted that there is a lower prevalence before the age of 45.
Conclusion: There is an evident increase in deaths due to malignant neoplasm of the pancreas and predictions that this will tend to increase in the coming years, due to the dietary pattern, with the epidemiological pattern with the highest prevalence being white women from the southeast region between 60 and 80 years old.
Corresponding author: Letícia Bezerra de Almeida (e-mail: leticiabezerradealmeida@hotmail.com).
No conflict of interest has been declared by the author(s).
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Article published online:
06 May 2025
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Letícia Bezerra de Almeida, Arthur Nóbrega Rodrigues de Lima, Henrique Fialho Carneiro Braga Costa, Bruno Varela Fernandes, Matheus Henrique Marinho de Gouveia, Hiago de Freitas Macedo, Larissa de Pontes Costa Abreu, Carla Vitória Brito dos Santos, Paulo Vinícios Morais Alexandre, Bright Owusu Ansah, Emanuella Maria Batista da Motta Pessoa, Kaline Kezia Piragibe Souto, Sywldson Marllon de Santana Moura, Isadora de Meira Melo, Catarina Ramalho dos Santos, Giulia di Cedico Paranhos, Vicente Castor Brito, Lucas Brito Maracajá, Larissa Calixto Hespanhol, Giulia Carvalhal, Gabrielly Araújo Vilela, Edson Júnior Diniz, Maria Vitória Silva Memória, Kael Costa Santana, Luis Henrique dos Santos Medeiros, Eliel Pereira da Silva, Georgia Nóbrega de Oliveira, Lucas Miná Pinto. Pancreatic cancer mortality: an epidemiological analysis using DATASUS. Brazilian Journal of Oncology 2025; 21.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1808031