Epidemiological profile of patients with prostatic neoplasia in a high complexity oncology center

Abstract

Objective: To describe the profile of prostate cancer patients who sought hospital care at a Brazilian High Complexity Oncology Center, as well as their condition on arrival at the center. Methods: This is a descriptive observational study, based on secondary data from the tumor file in the Hospital Cancer Registry at Afecc-Hospital Santa Rita de Cássia. RStudio and R software were used for descriptive analysis. Results: A total of 5,403 new analytical and non-analytical cases of prostate neoplasms were analyzed between 2000 and 2016. The number of cases had a mean age of 69.40 years (SD=8.82), with an increasing trend over the period (p<0.001). The majority of patients were over 60 years old (86.82%), brown or white (91.97%), with incomplete primary education (52.88%), married (67.37%), referred by SUS (76.12%), with no other primary tumors (97.87%), and histological type classified as adenocarcinoma (96.22%). The variables age (p=0.017), race/skin color (p<0.001) and education (p<0.001) showed statistically significant differences between analytical and non-analytical cases. Conclusion: The analyses show an upward trend in the incidence of prostate cancer over the years, and prostate neoplasia has a tropism for older, married men with a low education level.