[Potential years of life lost in Spain because of cancer. Social importance of childhood tumors].
The potential years of life lost are computed for deaths due to cancer in Spain an the results compared with those obtained using traditional mortality rates. Applying potential years of life lost the perception of the most important tumors is different, so the typically paediatric cancers as leukemias, lymphomas and central nervous system tumors, which are not among the 5 most frequent rumors in Spain, are the 4th and the 5th, if we perform a classification by the potential years of life lost. To analyze mortality data in this way may be useful to emphasize the importance of paediatric diseases because the potential years of life lost index take into account the social value of the premature deaths.
Departemento de Pediatría, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig.
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D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008017:Life Expectancy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D013030:Spain
Los años potenciales de vida perdida por cáncer en España. Importancia social de los tumores infantiles.