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Salud Pública de México
Print version ISSN 0036-3634
Abstract
LOZANO-ESPARZA, Susana et al. Evaluation of Mexico’s low cancer mortality using two national death registries. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2020, vol.62, n.2, pp.181-185. Epub Feb 28, 2022. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/10635.
Objective:
To compare cancer mortality rates in Mexico from two national death registries that independently code and attribute cause of death.
Materials and methods:
We compared 5-year age-standardized total cancer and site-specific cancer mortality rates (2010-2014) from Mexico’s official death registry with a death registry from a disease surveillance system. We obtained age-adjusted mortality rates and 95% confidence intervals using the direct method and World Population Prospects 2010 as a standard.
Results:
Cancer mortality estimates for Mexico were minimally affected by the use of two distinct death certificate-coding procedures. Cancer mortality was 73.3 forInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografíaand 72.7 for System for Epidemiolo gic Death Statistics per 100 000 women. The corresponding estimates for men were 68.3 and 67.8.
Conclusion:
Mexico’s low cancer mortality is unlikely to be explained by death certificate processing. Further investigations into the process of death certification and cancer registration should be conducted in Mexico.
Keywords : cancer; mortality; Mexico; mortality registries.