ABSTRACT
The mortality, incidence, morbidity, partial data and opportune detection, of the main cancer types were reviewed from de information register corresponding to 1987, to analyze the epidemiological panorama of cancer in Mexico. The main causes of death in women were cervix uterine, breast, stomach and lung carcinomas, leukemias and lymphomas; and in men were lung, gastric, prostate, leukemias and lymphomas. The most frequent localization of women's new cancer cases were cervix uterus, breast, ovary, lymphoma, thyroid gland and endometrium; and in men were prostate, lymphoma, stomach, leukemia and lung. In according to tendencies about the main death rates in Mexico, we estimate that 55.3 by 100.00 inhabitants will be the rate of cancer deaths in the year 2000, numerical character virtually bigger considering demographic variation like human life's hope and increase population with cancer risk.
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Neoplasms/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Cause of Death , Female , Humans , Incidence , Male , Mexico/epidemiology , Middle Aged , Neoplasms/mortality , Registries/statistics & numerical data , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
1,200 cases of bone tumors were reviewed from the Orthopedic Hospital "Magdalena de las Salinas" between 1982 and 1989. 66.7% of them were benign tumors, 14.3% pseudotumoral lesions, 10.1% metastatic tumors, 8.6% primary malignant tumors, and 0.3% were malignant invasive tumors to bone. The most frequently found benign tumors were: osteochondroma, enchondroma and giant cell tumor; the most frequent pseudotumoral lesions were metaphyseal fibrous defects, solitary bone cysts and fibrous dysplasia; the most frequent primary malignant tumor was osteosarcoma. Prevalence, frequency, distribution, sex, most frequent ages, affected bones, multicentricity, and aggregated fractures, as well as the site of the primary lesion in metastatic and invading tumors, were similar to those reported in the classical series.
