Institution: Centro Universitário Unirg
“Objective: To analyze the incidence of breast cancer admissions in Brazil from 2008 to 2016 and characterized by malignancy, gender, race, age and federative unit. Methodology: A retrospective descriptive study of the incidence of hospitalizations for breast cancer in Brazil. The data were obtained by DataSUS Information System, being analyzed in the years 2008-2016, tabulated in Excel 2015. Results: There were a total of 341,266 admissions for breast cancer, and 92.50% (n = 315,660) were malignant and 7.32% (n = 25,606) benign. In benign tumors, there were 24,615 female cases and 991 male. There was a higher incidence of the white race with 57.7% cases (n = 12,632), and the most affected age group was 40-49 years with 25.64% admissions (n = 6,312). The State of Paraná has the largest number of benign neoplasms hospitalizations with 23.24% of the cases (n = 5,721). Regarding the admissions for malignancies 4,206 belonged to the male and 311,454 female. The State of São Paulo had the highest incidence of male admissions (n = 828) and the State of Minas Gerais female (n = 37568). Malignant cases also prevailed the white race with 57.17% of cases (n = 178,064), but the most affected age group was 50-59 years, with 57.17% of admissions (n = 86,259). Conclusion: It is observed in the results that the highest incidence of breast cancer affecting the female and the white race. The age group 40-49 years is the most affected by benign breast cancers and 50-59 malignant cancers. The Southeast region had the highest incidence of hospitalizations for breast cancer.Key words: Breast cancer; Hospitalization; Incidence”
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