In-hospital metrics for the Treatment of Cervical Cancer in Minas Gerais in 2021 – Time Series from 2012 to 2021.

Abstract

Cervical cancer (CC) is the third most common tumor in the female population. Due to the importance of its morbimortality, public health policies have been developed in Brazil since the mid-1980s. It is decisive to detect lesions in early stages for the prognosis and conduct to be adopted, so that lesions in a more advanced stage, usually require more invasive procedures and hospital admissions. In spite of prevention and control measures currently adopted, it is important to monitor prevalence rates of hospital procedures for cervical cancer and its lethality, with the purpose of contributing to the planning of prevention actions. OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of hospital procedures for CC in Minas Gerais, and to observe their trend from 2012 to 2021. METHODS: The present work consists of a descriptive, ecological, observational study of hospital procedures for CC in Minas Gerais in 2021; and an analytical study from 2012 to 2021. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In Minas Gerais in 2021, 2,122 hospital procedures were performed due to CC. The most common age group was from 35- to 44-year-olds, followed by 45- to 54-year-olds. Of the total number of procedures, hospital admissions to treat cancer patients was the most common one followed by two other clinical procedures. The analysis of this time series has shown a significant decrease when procedures were observed globally (all age groups) and for 35-to-44-year-olds and 45-to-54-year-olds. CONCLUSION: In spite of the improvement trend of some indicators, when observing this time series, these indicators need to be continually monitored so that the real impacts of the proposed actions to improve the general scenario are verified, and especially the age groups who have not shown reduced rates. Interventions should be considered not only in health, but those that also cover socioeconomic and humanitarian indicators.