Abstract

ARZUAGA-SALAZAR, Maria Angélica; DE SOUZA, Maria de Lourdes  and  DE AZEVEDO LIMA, Vera Lucia. Cervical cancer: a global social problem. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2012, vol.28, n.1, pp.63-73. ISSN 0864-0319.

Objective: to analyze cervical cancer as a social problem. Method: cross sectional study with population data, based in descriptive epidemiology. Data were collected using the Globocan 2008 database. The United Nations classification of countries based on their level of development, the mortality rates due to cervical cancer from the International agency for research on cancer were applied to the analysis. Results: in 2008 the cervical cancer incidence was calculated in 529.828 new cases and 275.128 deaths in the World, from which 85% and 88% were from developed and developing countries respectively. In the developing countries the incidence rate of CUC was 17,8% per 100.000 women, the mortality rate was 9,8% per 100.000 women, the risk for a women of being affected by the neoplasia before the age of 75 years old is 1,87% and the risk of dying is 1,10%. In developed countries the incidence rate of CUC was 9,0 per 100.000 women, the mortality rate was 3,2% per 100.000 women and the risk for a women of being affected by the neoplasia before the age of 75 years old is 0,85% and the risk of dying is 0,33%. Conclusion: CUC is a social problem Worldwide; it affects women from developing countries as well as women from developed countries. Disease projections for the period between 2010 and 2030 reveal a tendency of increasing the number of new cases, being the highest risk of falling ill with CUC for women from developing countries.

Keywords : uterine cervical neoplasms; incidence; mortality; health inequalities.

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