%0 Journal Article
%T 1996-1999 Cancer Registry,Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitario Ram¨®n Gonz¨¢lez Valencia,
%A Andr¨¦s Mantilla Reinaud
%A Boris Eduardo Vesga Angarita
%A Jes¨²s Solier Insuasty Enr¨ªquez
%J MedUNAB
%D 2006
%I Universidad Aut¨®noma de Bucaramanga
%X Malignant tumors are one of the first causes of mortality in Colombia.We like to establish frequency, distribution by gender andage, histology and clinical stage of malignant tumors from Unidadde Oncolog¨ªa del Hospital Univesitario Ram¨®n Gonz¨¢lez Valenciaduring 1996-1999. We only included subjects more than 11 years oldwith histopahological diagnosis confirmed. Data were obtained fromclinical charts. We obtained 2.011 cancer records; female were morefrequent affected (63,5%). The most frequently cancer was: cervix(17,0%), skin (14, 4%), female breast (12,2%), stomach (8,2%), lung(4,4%), prostate (2,7%), thyroid (2,4%), ovary and annexes (2,3%),rectum (2,3%), and esophagus (2,0%). The histopathologycal typeswere: Squamous cell carcinoma in cervix uteri (85.2 %), basocelularcarcinoma in skin (67,0%), invasive intraductal in female breast(78,0%), intestinal adenocarcinoma in stomach (32,1%), adenocarcinomain lung (21,3%), adenocarcinoma in prostate (76,4%), papilarcarcinoma in thyroid (43,0%), serous papilar cystadenocarcinoma inovary and annexes (10,6%), adenocarcinoma in colon and rectum(57,4%), and squamous cell carcinoma in esophagus (24,4%). Thefirst four diseases entities were preventable, reflected our need toimprove education in health promotion and prevention. We hope thatthis study will be the basis for future cancer¡¯s risk factors studies.
%K Institutional cancer registry
%K cervical uterine neoplasm
%K skin neoplasm
%K breast neoplasm.
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