Abstract

PEREIRA, Maria Suely Lopes Correia; FERREIRA, Luiz Oscar Cardoso; SILVA, Guinar Azevedo e  and  LUCIO, Paulo Sérgio. Breast cancer mortality trends among women and years of potential life Lost in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, from 1988 to 2007. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2011, vol.20, n.2, pp.161-172. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742011000200005.

OBJECTIVES: to describe breast cancer mortality trends, to estimate potential years of life lost (PYLL) and potentially productive years of life lost (PPYLL). METHODOLOGY: a mortality time series comprising data on 20 to 70 year-old women who died from breast cancer and the Mortality Information System (MIS) were used as database; crude and standard international mortality rates, PYLL and PPYLL were calculated by year of occurrence. RESULTS: the risk of a woman dying from breast cancer increased during the period of analysis - the average adjusted mortality rate was 9.7 per 100,000 women - being higher for the age group of 50 to 59 years; PYLL and PPYLL were 20983.5 and 108535 per 100,000, respectively. CONCLUSION: results suggest the need for screening strategies and early diagnosis of breast cancer as priority actions related to women's health care.

Keywords : breast cancer; mortality rates; morbidity and mortality indicators; potentially productive years oflife lost.

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