Epidemiological and observational study of neoplastic patients treated at the cancer hospital of rio verde-goiás

The number of cancer cases has increased considerably worldwide, especially since the last century, and is now one of the most important public health problems. Thus, it is necessary to collect epidemiological data regarding the profile of cancer patients users of the Rio Verde Cancer Hospital, with the aim of providing a knowledge, both for academics and the hospital itself, about the characteristics of the users, in order to finally identify possible failures in primary care and in the screening of certain types of neoplasms. This study aimed to describe the epidemiological profile of cancer patients attended by the Rio Verde Cancer Hospital in Goiás. The population of the study was the patients with positive history for cancer hospitalized in the Cancer Hospital of Rio Verde-GO, who had their medical records analyzed. A total of 1174 medical records were analyzed, of which 101 had patients diagnosed with some form of cancer (8.60%); 63 patients were women (62.37%) and 38 were men (37.62%). Regarding the origin, 92 patients were from Rio Verde (91.08%); With regard to schooling, 30 patients have completed elementary education (29.70%); 49 patients were married (48.51%) and the most common cancer was skin cancer, with 64 cases (63.36%). Cancer is an important public health problem and in order to face the difficulties arising from it, it is necessary to know it and to know how much this disease affects the population, in order to create measures to mitigate the damages caused by the disease.