Avaliação do impacto dos fatores geográficos e socioeconômicos na apresentação inicial da criança e do adolescente com câncer / Impact of geographic and socioeconomic factors in the staging from pediatric oncology patients

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2010

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The early diagnosis of cancer is a fundamental goal in pediatric oncology because it allows an opportunity for timely treatment while the disease is still in its earliest stages. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between sociodemographic variables and stage disease. Retrospective analysis was performed in malignant tumors patients admitted in the Hospital Sarina Rolim Caracante (HSRC) between January 1998 and December 2008. Dependent variable was considered the stage of the disease at diagnosis. Independent variables were age, gender, referral geographic region, lag time, histological diagnosis, mothers education level, number of siblings, employ status, pediatric emergency unit availability, urbanization, distance, Human Developing Index (HDI) and Social Exclusion Index (SEI). Two hundred and forty six cases were evaluated. Twenty-five were excluded because of missing data. Sixty-one per cent were male and 7.3 years median age. Sixty per cent were stage III and IV and the median lag time of all patients was 103.25 days. The commonest histological subtypes were: Hodgkins lymphoma, neuroblastomas and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Neuroblastoma, carcinoma and retinoblastoma had the highest percentual of advanced disease. There was no statistical correlation between lag time and stage (p=0.49). The patient and parent variables such as age, gender, mothers age, mothers education level, parental employee status were not associated with risk of advanced disease. Variables related with the place of residence: region, distance, pediatric emergency unit availability, urbanization, SEI and HDI were not associated with increased risk of advanced stage either. Despite a high incidence of advanced disease in xi these small series we could not demonstrate that sociodemographic factors are responsible for advanced disease

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fatores socioeconômicos adolescentes distribuição geográfica da população adolescent delayed diagnosis staging of cancer diagnóstico tardio geographic population distributition cancer socioeconomic factors children criança estadiamento de neoplasias neoplasias

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