Mortality from endometrial cancer in female population of Belgrade
| Autor: | R Vesna Pantovic, Darija Kisic, S Mirjana Jarebinski, D Tatjana Pekmezovic, Anita Knezevic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Mortality Decline age factors medicine.medical_specialty endometrial neoplasms Population Yugoslavia Endometrium 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Age groups medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine education Aged Female population Gynecology lcsh:R5-920 education.field_of_study business.industry Mortality rate Endometrial cancer Middle Aged medicine.disease mortality 3. Good health medicine.anatomical_structure Standardized mortality ratio 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female lcsh:Medicine (General) business |
| Zdroj: | Vojnosanitetski Pregled, Vol 61, Iss 3, Pp 267-272 (2004) |
| ISSN: | 2406-0720 0042-8450 |
| Popis: | Data about mortality from malignant tumors of endometrium were analyzed in the Belgrade area during the period 1975-2000. The obtained results showed that the average percentage of endometrial cancer in mortality structure from all the cancers of female population was 2.65%. During the observed 26-years period, malignant tumors of endometrium constituted 17.38% of all the tumors of gynecological localization. The standardized mortality rate in 1975 (population worldwide used as a standard) 7.06/100 000 population while in 2000 it was 1.78/100 000 population, respectively, which showed almost fourfold mortality decline during the observed period (y=4.72-0.16x). A trend of declining risk of dying from endometrial cancer was present in all the age groups. The obtained results indicated that in the observed period the average mortality rates ranged from 0.14/100 000 population in females aged up to 34 years (y=0.30-0.01x), and reached the highest value in females aged 65-74 years (14.57/100 000; y=23.43-0.66x), and 75 years of age and over (19.62/100 000; y=31.17-0.85x). |
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