Table 1.

Characteristics of the incidence of breast and cervical cancer cases according to Population-Based Cancer Registry of Barretos Cancer Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil, years 2000–2015

Variable	Breast cancer		Cervical cancer
	N	%	N	%
Age at diagnosis
< 30 years	22	1.0	219	22.4
30–39 years	128	6.1	224	22.9
40–49 years	502	23.8	189	19.3
≥50 years	1458	69.1	346	35.4
School levela
Illiterate	158	7.8	82	8.8
<High school	1292	63.9	676	72.4
High school	295	14.6	109	11.7
College	276	13.7	67	7.2
Year of diagnosis
2000–2004	410	19.4	242	24.7
2005–2009	596	28.2	185	18.9
2010–2015	1104	52.3	551	56.6
Clinical stage of disease at diagnosis (breast cancer: TNM; cervical cancer: FIGO)a
In situ	338	16.5	619	65.9
I	468	22.9	84	8.9
II	649	31.8	91	9.7
III	405	19.8	94	10.0
IV	183	9.0	51	5.4
Total	2110	100	978	100

^aNumbers in these variables do not add up to the overall total number of cases due to the missing values