Distribuição geográfica e tendências temporais da mortalidade por neoplasia maligna no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil, no período de 1998 a 2007

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the geographic variation and the time tendencies of mortality for malignant neoplasm in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, during the period of 1998 and 2007. The data of the mortality was obtained from the Mortality Information System (SIM). As the synthesis product, it was produced thematic maps besides the graphic of mortality tendency. In the analysis of the death causes during the period of 1998 and 2007, it was observed that the neoplasm occupied the 3rd place as the death cause, corresponding to 13.78% of deaths. In the period of the analysis, it was verified that men had more participation in the volume of deaths for neoplasm (20.26%) over, and in most ages, except between 30 and 49, ages, where women presented 7.11% more deaths during the period analyzed, approximately 1.55 times the number of male deaths. During this time, 6.552 female deaths for neoplasm, 13.75% were related to breast neoplasm, 13.75% to neck, body and non-specifc parts of the uterus, excluding the rest of the neoplasm. As the own neoplasm of each gender, in the male gender was verified the high mortality of prostate cancer (14.48%) and lung (14.05), with high proportion of deaths (94.95%) and 90.89%) in the age range over 60. From the total of deaths for the other neoplasm occorred in the male gender, it was observed a similar situation in the age over 50 for stomach neoplasm (86.89%) and the age between 50 and 79 for esophagus (75.22%). Under this aspect, with the found results in the occurrence of deaths by malign neoplasm in the Mato Grosso do Sul State, it was possible to point correlations with the environmental aspects for the inferring of possible causes, as pesticides use, in a way that there were no researches in this area for the region in study. In this way, it is suggested more specific future studies of the correlation between factors of use and occupation of land and socio-environment, with better detailed in the scale of analysis for the regions where it was detected more mortalities, having as base the Medical and Health Geography. Besides, the reduction of consume of pesticides as well as the prohibition of the use of products which are proved to be harmful to the dietary and ocupational security and the reduction of level of toxins in the products used, imply in improvements in the health of the population and in the quality of the environment being so goals of sustainable development.