Ananda Almeida

Conference 2024 Poster

Poster Title

Blue November: mortality of men from prostate cancer in the last 5 years in Brazil

Authors and Affiliations

Ananda Vieira de Lima Almeida1, Arthur Santos Lima1, Ana Caroline Santos Gomes1, Alef Santiago Rezende1, Maria Clara Cardoso Motta de Oliveira1, Maria Clara Alves de Sá1, Rafael Carneiro de Lélis2

1. Student of BAHIANA – School of Medicine and Public Health
2. Teacher of BAHIANA – School of Medicine and Public Health

Abstract

Background

Prostate cancer is the second cause for men’s death. That, it become the study matter for the health’s action can be think with the goal of going to reduce mortality, get better prognosis and improve masculine life quality. Blue November is the month’s prevention of prostate cancer. It is necessary to comprehend about the impact of the disease on the public’s health for the diagnosis what may be discover precociously. The goal of this study is to analyze the men’s mortality for prostate cancer in the last five years in Brazil with the goal to think about to make ware population actions for the target’s public. This is important to the impact of decreasing the parameters of mortality in Brazilian society.

Methods

This is a descriptive cross-sectional study of death for prostate cancer between January 2018 and December 2022 that used data from the Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS) to analyze the mortality of men for region, year, color/race and age group of 60 to 69 years, 70 to 79 years, and 80 years and above.

Results

In the descriptive cross-sectional study happened 15,467 deaths from prostate cancer in Brazil. The Southeast region had more deaths (49,0%, n=7.587) while the North region had less deaths (4,3%, n=675). The year in which these deaths occurred followed a stable pattern, including 2020 the pandemic year start of coronavirus and increase of sub notifications. Then, the stable pattern is: 2018 (19,8%, n=3.096), 2019 (20,9%, n=3.272), 2020 (18,4%, n=2884), 2021 (20,1%, n=3.142) and 2022 (19,6%, n=3.068) remained on the margin of error. The deaths of prostate cancer have a slight predominance for white color (39,7%, n=6.208), but the number is like brown (35,6%, n=5.579). About the age group, there is more predominance between men of 70 to 79 years (38,2%, n=5.974), men of 80 years and above (30,9%, n=4.841) and men of 60 to 69 years (23,6%, n=3.706).

Conclusions

Therefore, it is necessary to break of healthy man stigmas. The Blue November campaign values prevention by men and promotes direct effect in numerical values found in Brazil from the reduction of mortality due prophylaxis.