The role of health policy in the burden of breast cancer in Brazil

BMC Women's Health

Table 1 Trend of breast cancer rates in Brazilian women between 2004 to 2014

Breast cancer^a	Year											Linear Regression
Breast cancer^a	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	β (CI 95%)	r²	p
Age-standardized Mortality^b (per 100,000 people)	10.73	11.13	11.87	12.06	12.9	13.04	13.88	14.36	14.78	15.49	15.9	0.52 (0.49;0.55)	0.99	<0.001
Age-standardized Hospital Admission Incidence^b (per 100,000 people)	39.42	41.16	41.11	45.51	42.54	44.86	47.82	49.54	54.81	60.61	58.04	2.04 (1.49; 2.60)	0.88	<0.001
Mortality-to-incidence ratio	0.272	0.270	0.288	0.264	0.303	0.290	0.290	0.289	0.269	0.255	0.273	−0.0006 (−0.003; 0.002)	0.02	0.644

Source: Mortality Information System (SIM) and Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS). Data made available by the Department of Informatics of the National Health System (DATASUS—www.datasus.gov.br). Ministry of Health, Brazil
CI 95% Confidence Interval of 95%
^aInternational classification of diseases, 10th revision. Code C50 [7]
^bAge-standardized to the WHO standard population [8]

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