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PEREIRA, Maria Suely Lopes Correia; FERREIRA, Luiz Oscar Cardoso; SILVA, Guinar Azevedo e  e  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.

Palavras-chave : breast cancer; mortality rates; morbidity and mortality indicators; potentially productive years oflife lost.

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