Survival of a cohort of women with cervical cancer diagnosed in a Brazilian cancer center

Autor:	Claudio Calazan do Carmo, Ronir Raggio Luiz
Jazyk:	English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Předmět:	neoplasias do colo do útero detecção precoce de câncer diagnóstico tardio análise de sobrevida Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	Revista de Saúde Pública, Vol 45, Iss 4, Pp 661-667
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0034-8910 1518-8787
Popis:	OBJECTIVE: To assess overall survival of women with cervical cancer and describe prognostic factors associated. METHODS: A total of 3,341 cases of invasive cervical cancer diagnosed at the Brazilian Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, between 1999 and 2004 were selected. Clinical and pathological characteristics and follow-up data were collected. There were performed a survival analysis using Kaplan-Meier curves and a multivariate analysis through Cox model. RESULTS: Of all cases analyzed, 68.3% had locally advanced disease at the time of diagnosis. The 5-year overall survival was 48%. After multivariate analysis, tumor staging at diagnosis was the single variable significantly associated with prognosis (p
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