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An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

BACKGROUND: Cancer is a leading cause of disease and death in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Contemporary data on the cancer burden aims to inform effective cancer policies; this article provides an update and benchmarking of national cancer incidence and mortality estimates for the year 202...

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Autores principales: Piñeros, Marion, Laversanne, Mathieu, Barrios, Enrique, Cancela, Marianna de Camargo, de Vries, Esther, Pardo, Constanza, Bray, Freddie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36189115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100294
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author Piñeros, Marion
Laversanne, Mathieu
Barrios, Enrique
Cancela, Marianna de Camargo
de Vries, Esther
Pardo, Constanza
Bray, Freddie
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Laversanne, Mathieu
Barrios, Enrique
Cancela, Marianna de Camargo
de Vries, Esther
Pardo, Constanza
Bray, Freddie
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description BACKGROUND: Cancer is a leading cause of disease and death in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Contemporary data on the cancer burden aims to inform effective cancer policies; this article provides an update and benchmarking of national cancer incidence and mortality estimates for the year 2020, alongside recent mortality trends in the region. METHODS: The number of new cancer cases and deaths were extracted from the GLOBOCAN 2020 database developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and mortality data over time from IARC's cancer mortality database, New cancer cases, deaths and corresponding age-standardized rates per 100,000 person-years are presented. Random fluctuations in mortality trends by country, sex and cancer site were smoothed using LOWESS regression. FINDINGS: An estimated total of 1.5 million new cancer cases and 700,000 deaths occur annually in LAC, with corresponding incidence and mortality rates of 186.5 and 86.6 per 100,000. The most common cancers in 2020 were prostate (15%), breast (14%), colorectal (9%), lung (7%) and stomach (5%). Lung cancer remained the leading cause of cancer death (12%), though rates varied substantially between countries. The mortality trends of infectious-related cancers tended to decline in most countries, while rates of cancer types linked to westernization were mainly increasing. Assuming rates remain unchanged, the cancer burden in LAC will increase by 67% reaching 2.4 million new cases annually by 2040. INTERPRETATION: The cancer patterns reflect important underlying sociodemographic changes occurring over the last decades. With an increasing burden anticipated over the next decades in this region, there is a need to plan oncological service provision accordingly. FUNDING: No external funds received.
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spelling pubmed-94830352022-09-30 An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean Piñeros, Marion Laversanne, Mathieu Barrios, Enrique Cancela, Marianna de Camargo de Vries, Esther Pardo, Constanza Bray, Freddie Lancet Reg Health Am Articles BACKGROUND: Cancer is a leading cause of disease and death in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Contemporary data on the cancer burden aims to inform effective cancer policies; this article provides an update and benchmarking of national cancer incidence and mortality estimates for the year 2020, alongside recent mortality trends in the region. METHODS: The number of new cancer cases and deaths were extracted from the GLOBOCAN 2020 database developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and mortality data over time from IARC's cancer mortality database, New cancer cases, deaths and corresponding age-standardized rates per 100,000 person-years are presented. Random fluctuations in mortality trends by country, sex and cancer site were smoothed using LOWESS regression. FINDINGS: An estimated total of 1.5 million new cancer cases and 700,000 deaths occur annually in LAC, with corresponding incidence and mortality rates of 186.5 and 86.6 per 100,000. The most common cancers in 2020 were prostate (15%), breast (14%), colorectal (9%), lung (7%) and stomach (5%). Lung cancer remained the leading cause of cancer death (12%), though rates varied substantially between countries. The mortality trends of infectious-related cancers tended to decline in most countries, while rates of cancer types linked to westernization were mainly increasing. Assuming rates remain unchanged, the cancer burden in LAC will increase by 67% reaching 2.4 million new cases annually by 2040. INTERPRETATION: The cancer patterns reflect important underlying sociodemographic changes occurring over the last decades. With an increasing burden anticipated over the next decades in this region, there is a need to plan oncological service provision accordingly. FUNDING: No external funds received. Elsevier 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9483035/ /pubmed/36189115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100294 Text en © 2022 World Health Organization https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/).
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Pardo, Constanza
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title_full An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
title_fullStr An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
title_full_unstemmed An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
title_short An updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
title_sort updated profile of the cancer burden, patterns and trends in latin america and the caribbean
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36189115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100294
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