Efetividade para o diagnóstico e tratamento do câncer de mama entre os diferentes níveis de atenção da saúde

Abstract

In recent decades, breast cancer has shown a significant increase in the number of new cases, becoming an obvious problem of global public health. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the effectiveness in diagnosis and treatment of this malignancy among the different levels of health care. This is a descriptive and analytical study, quantitative observational whose design was cross-sectional, from primary data collected in interviews with semi-structured questionnaire, and secondary data from the medical records and records entered in the Hospital Registry Information System Cancer and Mortality Information System. The study population consisted of women and men linked to the High Complexity in Oncology Centers diagnosed with breast cancer between the years 2012 to 2014. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Alagoas under No. CAAE: 19253813.5 .0000.5013 and data collection was carried out from November / 2013 to October / 2015. For data analysis were calculated averages, proportions and crude and adjusted rates. They interviewed 197 subjects whose average age ranged from 51.78 ± 11.44 years. Most were female (97.5%). Regarding the first diagnosis, it was observed that most were conducted at the secondary level health care (53.23%). The time between suspicion and confirmation of the diagnosis was on average of 5.46 months (± 11.61) and the average time between confirmation and the start of treatment was 3.8 ± 4.31 months . When analyzing the survival of the cases that evolved to death, for the date of first diagnosis, it was found that this was an average of 68 months (62.96%). When analyzed survival between the secondary and tertiary levels of health care, there are individuals diagnosed at secondary level had a survival rate of 34.76 ± 16.64 months since the diagnosis at the tertiary level was 17.32 ± 13, 80 months. Primary care showed low effectiveness on diagnosing and monitoring breast cancer when analyzing all cases. However, it proved to be effective in the cases diagnosed at that level. The secondary and tertiary levels proved to be effective, even considering the late diagnosis for this malignancy, because in these levels, the therapeutic approach was established.