Gynecological cancers: cervix, corpus uteri, ovary.
Incidence trend of cervix uteri cancer (5,158 cases), within the Italian Network of Cancer Registries database (pool AIRT), showed for the period 1986-1997 a statistically significant decrease up to 1990. Corpus uteri cancer (9,975 incident cases) incidence rates were stable in the analysed period. As regards uteri cancer mortality, only a small proportion of deaths are coded as cervix (784 deaths) or corpus uteri (886 deaths) whereas the great majority (3,538 deaths) refers to uteri not otherwise specified; mortality for the latter group was significantly decreasing in the analysed period. Ovary cancer showed stable incidence (7,690 incident cases) and mortality (5.040 deaths) rates in the period 1986-1997.
Zambon
Paola
P
Registro tumori del Veneto, Azienda ospedaliera di Padova.
La Rosa
Francesco
F
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology