[Pediatric cancer: analysis of hospital records].
| Autor: | da Silva DB; Dep de Pediatria, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC., Pires MM, Nassar SM |
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| Jazyk: | portugalština |
| Zdroj: | Jornal de pediatria [J Pediatr (Rio J)] 2002 Sep-Oct; Vol. 78 (5), pp. 409-14. |
| DOI: | 10.2223/jped.885 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To analyze pediatric cancer hospital records regarding the occurrence of new cases; to verify the relation between sex, age, race, origin and the disease clinical extension; to describe the mortality of children with cancer; to explore the association of new cases with proposed demographic variables, disease clinical extension and vital status. Methods: Observational, descriptive, longitudinal study in children up to 14 years old, from Santa Catarina. Three hundred and seventy-one new cases of cancer were treated in a regional reference outpatient clinic (1994-98) and recorded according to the International Classification of Childhood Cancer. Multiple Correspondence Analysis was applied to evaluate the categorical variables. Results: Three-hundred and seventy-one new cases of cancer were recorded with constant distribution in each year. Cancer affected preschoolers (41.5%) and males (55.8%). Leukemia was observed in 36.6% of the cases. Non-localized stage on the diagnosis occurred in 55.7%. The death occurred in 55.7% of the cases with non-localized disease and 16.3% with localized disease. At the end of the study 58.8% of the children were alive. Conclusions: We observed more cases of cancer at pre-school age and among male subjects. Leukemia is the most frequent type of cancer. Non-localized disease predominates on the diagnosis. The death frequency is higher in the group with non-localized disease. There is direct association with non-localized disease, living vital status, school age, adolescent age, female, and for non-localized disease with death vital status, infant age, pre-school age and male. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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