Abstract
To analyze underlying disease, fatality rate and the major causes of death of in-patients with malignant tumors in Sichuan Cancer Hospital. Clinical data of in-patients from 2002 to 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. The top 10 tumors (82.0%of the total) of the malignant tumors of the in- patients were lung, cervical, esophagus, breast, colorectal, nasopharynx, liver and gastric cancers, lymphomas and ovarian cancers. The overall fatality rate was 2.7% during these eleven years, 3.4% and 2.0% for male and females, respectively with statistical significance for the difference (χ2=164.737, P<0.001). The top 10 death causes were lung cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, esophagus cancer, gastric cancer, lymphoma, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and nasopharynx cancer. In-patients with pancreatic cancer had the highest fatality rate (9.6%). There were different ranks of death causes in different sex groups and age groups. Prevention and control work of cancer should be enhanced not only for cancers with high incidence such as lung cancer, esophageal cancer but also for the cancers which have low incidence but high fatality rate, such as pancreatic cancer and gallbladder cancer, which would help to improve the survival rate and quality of life of cancer patients in the future.
Highlights
The incidence and mortality of malignant tumors have been increasing rapidly in recent years, and cancer has become one of the major causes of death as well as a vital public health problem worldwide
To analyze the disease constitution, the fatality rate and the major causes of death and master the epidemiological characteristic of malignant tumors is of great significance for cancer prevention and control
Cancer Hospital from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2012 who met all the following criteria for analysis: (1) in-patients with the first diagnosis of malignant tumor based on ICD - 10 classification principle, (2) The death report cards were written by the doctor in charge and had been reported to national mortality registration system
Summary
The incidence and mortality of malignant tumors have been increasing rapidly in recent years, and cancer has become one of the major causes of death as well as a vital public health problem worldwide. To analyze the disease constitution, the fatality rate and the major causes of death and master the epidemiological characteristic of malignant tumors is of great significance for cancer prevention and control. Our scientific research group analyzed the disease and death information of in-patients with malignant tumor in Sichuan Cancer Hospital from 2002 to 2012, in order to provide scientific basis for the prevention and control of malignant tumors
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