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Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the epidemiological characteristics and trends of lung cancer in North Sardinia, Italy, in the period 1992–2010. METHODS: Data were obtained from the tumor registry of Sassari province which is a part of a wider registry web, coordinated...

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Autores principales: Paliogiannis, Panagiotis, Attene, Federico, Cossu, Antonio, Budroni, Mario, Cesaraccio, Rosaria, Tanda, Francesco, Trignano, Mario, Palmieri, Giuseppe
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23849787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-8-45
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author Paliogiannis, Panagiotis
Attene, Federico
Cossu, Antonio
Budroni, Mario
Cesaraccio, Rosaria
Tanda, Francesco
Trignano, Mario
Palmieri, Giuseppe
author_facet Paliogiannis, Panagiotis
Attene, Federico
Cossu, Antonio
Budroni, Mario
Cesaraccio, Rosaria
Tanda, Francesco
Trignano, Mario
Palmieri, Giuseppe
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the epidemiological characteristics and trends of lung cancer in North Sardinia, Italy, in the period 1992–2010. METHODS: Data were obtained from the tumor registry of Sassari province which is a part of a wider registry web, coordinated today by the Italian Association for Tumor Registries. RESULTS: The overall number of lung cancer cases registered was 4,325. The male-to-female ratio was 4.6:1 and the mean age 68.1 years for males and 67 years for females. The standardized incidence rates were 73.1/100,000 and 13.5/100,000 and the standardized mortality rates 55.7/100,000 and 9.9/100,000 for males and females, respectively. An increasing trend in incidence of lung cancer in women was evidenced. Conversely, incidence was found to decrease in males. Relative survival at 5 years from diagnosis was low (8.8% for males and 14.9% for females). Furthermore, an increase in mortality rates was observed in both sexes in the period under investigation. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show an increasing trend of lung cancer incidence in women in North Sardinia in the last decades. Conversely, a reduction of incidence rates was observed in males. Furthermore, a slightly increasing trend in mortality rates was observed in both sexes, suggesting the need to enhance smoking control strategies, consider adoption of effective surveillance policies, and improve diagnosis and treatment methods.
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spelling pubmed-37186712013-07-23 Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy Paliogiannis, Panagiotis Attene, Federico Cossu, Antonio Budroni, Mario Cesaraccio, Rosaria Tanda, Francesco Trignano, Mario Palmieri, Giuseppe Multidiscip Respir Med Original Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the epidemiological characteristics and trends of lung cancer in North Sardinia, Italy, in the period 1992–2010. METHODS: Data were obtained from the tumor registry of Sassari province which is a part of a wider registry web, coordinated today by the Italian Association for Tumor Registries. RESULTS: The overall number of lung cancer cases registered was 4,325. The male-to-female ratio was 4.6:1 and the mean age 68.1 years for males and 67 years for females. The standardized incidence rates were 73.1/100,000 and 13.5/100,000 and the standardized mortality rates 55.7/100,000 and 9.9/100,000 for males and females, respectively. An increasing trend in incidence of lung cancer in women was evidenced. Conversely, incidence was found to decrease in males. Relative survival at 5 years from diagnosis was low (8.8% for males and 14.9% for females). Furthermore, an increase in mortality rates was observed in both sexes in the period under investigation. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show an increasing trend of lung cancer incidence in women in North Sardinia in the last decades. Conversely, a reduction of incidence rates was observed in males. Furthermore, a slightly increasing trend in mortality rates was observed in both sexes, suggesting the need to enhance smoking control strategies, consider adoption of effective surveillance policies, and improve diagnosis and treatment methods. BioMed Central 2013-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3718671/ /pubmed/23849787 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-8-45 Text en Copyright © 2013 Paliogiannis et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Paliogiannis, Panagiotis
Attene, Federico
Cossu, Antonio
Budroni, Mario
Cesaraccio, Rosaria
Tanda, Francesco
Trignano, Mario
Palmieri, Giuseppe
Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title_full Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title_fullStr Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title_full_unstemmed Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title_short Lung cancer epidemiology in North Sardinia, Italy
title_sort lung cancer epidemiology in north sardinia, italy
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23849787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-8-45
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