SOCIAL ASPECTS IN THE CONTROL OF CANCER UTERINE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CALDAS

Aspectos sociales en el control del cáncer uterino en el departamento de caldas

  Cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer in women in developing countries. In Colombia, the mortality rate recorded in 1990 for cervical cancer
It was 6.49 per 100,000 inhabitants, while in Manizales was 15.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. The curve of mortality in Colombia tripled the year 1960-1988 (Ministry of Health). The mortality curve in the department of the year 1980-1994 average was 52.8% (Section of Epidemiology, Regional Health Department of Caldas today Territorial Health Directorate Caldas) In the Hospital de Caldas, 32.3% of neoplasms they diagnosed between 1993 and 1996 were for cervical neoplasia, most diagnostic frequency, including more than skin and stomach cancers. According to the Population Registration Caldas, 2.002 Pilot Test were 23 deaths Cervical cancer, ranks first with stomach cancer. In 1989 238 cases of invasive cancer (80%) and 43 cases of carcinoma in situ of the cervix (20%) (Departmental Health Secretariat Caldas, Section Epidemiology) were presented.
According to a study conducted between 1990-1994 by the Ministry of Health of Caldas she found that municipalities Dorada, Salamina, Marquetalia, Manizales, Chinchiná, Supia, Anserma and Belalcazar accounted for more than 76.6% of deaths from this tumor and were called municipalities critics.

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