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0114/2018 - The Effect of redistribution of ill-defined causes of death on the mortality rate of breast cancer in Brazil.
Efeito da redistribuição das causas mal definidas de óbito sobre a taxa de mortalidade por câncer de mama no Brasil.

Author:

• Maria Silvia de Azevedo Couto - Couto, MSA - <silviaacouto@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Vinícius de Azevedo Couto Firme - Firme, VAC - <vinicius.firme@ufjf.edu.br>
• Maximiliano Ribeiro Guerra - Guerra, M.R - <guerramr@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0234-7190
• Maria Teresa Bustamante-Teixeira - Bustamante-Teixeira, M. T. - <teitabt@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-4170


Abstract:

The relevance of breast cancer for women has boosted researches about the mortality of this disease. However, these studies are affected by problems generated by deaths comingill-defined causes (IDC). In order to highlight the distortions caused by IDC on mortality, we calculated the age-standardized mortality rates of breast cancer, with and without IDC correction for the years 1990, 2000, and 2010. Then, panel data models were estimated in order to verify how the IDC correction could affect the analysis about breast cancer mortality. Our main results showed this correction has raised the breast cancer mortality rate of Brazilian municipalities by 9% in the period considered; has made the mortality rates of the South, Southeast, Northeast and North regions closer; has reduced the growth trend of mortality by almost 60%, mainly in the Southeast and South; has increased, more sharply, the mortality of cities with less than 5 thousand habitants; has decreased the significance of most factors associated with breast cancer; has revealed the effect of longevity and the public spent on health would be overestimated. These results highlight the importance of IDC correction in producing reliable indicators about mortality.

Keywords:

breast cancer; Cause of Death; Mortality; Statistical Models.

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Couto, MSA, Firme, VAC, Guerra, M.R, Bustamante-Teixeira, M. T.. The Effect of redistribution of ill-defined causes of death on the mortality rate of breast cancer in Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Mar). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-effect-of-redistribution-of-illdefined-causes-of-death-on-the-mortality-rate-of-breast-cancer-in-brazil/16647?id=16647&id=16647



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