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. 2013 Apr 5;25(4):220–225. [Article in Spanish] doi: 10.1016/S0212-6567(00)78490-3

Evolución de la mortalidad por cáncer de pulmón en Andalucía desde 1975 a 1997

Evolution of mortality due to lung cancer in andalusia between 1975 and 1997

M Ruiz Ramos a,*, F Viciana Fernández b, V Canto Casasola a, T Hermosín Bono c
PMCID: PMC7679498  PMID: 10795434

Abstract

Objective

To describe mortality due to lung cancer in those over 24 by sex, age, birth cohort and year of death in Andalusia between 1975 and 1997.

Design

A descriptive population-based study.

Setting

Andalusia between 1975 and 1997.

Participants

All those residing in Andalusia during the study period.

Measurements and main results

The following indicators were calculated: gross rates, rates adjusted by age of death and rates of potential years of life lost. The European population was used as reference, with specific rates for age-groups and year of birth. Piosson models were used to quantify trends and annual percentages of change both for the entire period and for the 23 years studied. Death from lung cancer in men during these years increased markedly. Ageadjusted rates went up from 77.37 deaths per 100000 persons per year in 1975 to 121.92 in 1997. However, in women, there was a small drop from 10.19 to 8.22 deaths per 100000 persons per year over the same period. Men suffered 7.59 times more mortality than women in 1975, reaching 17.25 times more in 1994. Age had a clear relationship to lung cancer mortality: the older the population, the greater the death-rate. In men there was an ascendant cohort effect until the generation born between 1950 and 1959, from which time the effect is unclear. Women had a descending cohort effect, with high variability between one generation and another.

Conclusions

Death from lung cancer in Andalusia between 1975 and 1997 increased in men in transversal terms, whereas in women it went down. However, the analyses of birth cohorts show signs of changes in the most recent generations, although age, in both men and women, is the variable most closely related to mortality.

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