Trends of premature mortality of major cancers in Putuo District， Shanghai from 2004 to 2016

Abstract

ObjectiveTo understand the premature mortality of the most common cancers in the residents in Putuo District， Shanghai for the goal to decrease the probability of premature cancer mortality.MethodsLife table was used to calculate crude and age-standardized incidence rate， mortality， and the probability of premature mortality caused by cancers among Putuo residents from 2004 to 2016. The annual percent change was used to describe the change of these indexes.ResultsFrom 2004 to 2016， the crude incidence rate increased from 383.51/105 to 573.94/105 （APC=3.52%， P0.05）. Male nasopharyngeal carcinoma and female cervical carcinoma ranked top ten cancers causing probability of premature mortality but not the top ten cancers according to the crude mortality rate.ConclusionThe premature death caused by cancers shows a downward trend in general， but not in the female and most common cancers. The burden to reduce the premature mortality is still heavy. More efforts should focus on those cancers that are preventable and detectable by screening in order to decrease the premature cancer mortality.

Keywords

• cancer
• mortality
• probability of premature mortality
• trend