Adult mortality due to malignant tumors in the municipality of Jovellanos. 2009-2011

Abstract

A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out to know the behavior of mortality caused by cancer in people elder than 18 years old due to malignant tumors in the municipality of Jovellanos in the period between 2009-2011. We considered those deceases whose main cause was cancer, according to the 10th Revision of the Disease International Classification.  We calculate the mortality rate per age groups and sex, the proportional mortality ratio and potentially lost years. We found that the proportional mortality ratio was kept over 20 %, that the male sex was 1,5 times more at risk of dying by cancer, duplicated at the age range from 60 to 74 years old. 73,3 % of the deceases occurred after being 60 years old. The most common location of the malignant tumors was lung, trachea and bronchi, digestive tract, prostate, colon and rectum, mamma and hemolymphopoietic.  Female sex showed the greatest quantity potentially lost life years, with 17,6 life years per 1000 women. We arrived to the conclusion that cancer is an important health problem for the population of the municipality of Jovellanos, with increasing mortality levels, may be becoming the main mortality cause.