In Navarre, an average of 11 cases of cancer are diagnosed every day.

AdminJanuary 30, 2024

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He last year V A total of 4,224 new cancer cases were diagnosed in the Foral Community. –this figure does not include non-melanoma skin cancer–, of which 2485 –58.83%– were V Men And 1739 –41.17%–, in women. morbidityThat’s why, increased by almost 3% compared to 2022when 4102 cases were counted (2410 in men, 58.7% and 1692 in women, 41.25%), according to Cancer Registry of the Institute of Public and Professional Health of Navarra (ISPLN), which collects all data from both public and private health centers.

Infographic from the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra.

Head of the population accounting department, Marcela Guevara, thought that these The data “is within the expected range that has been seen in the state and in other countries around us. Incidence rates expected and virtually all of this growth can be explained by population aging.”. In this regard and on occasion World Disease Daywhich is celebrated on February 4, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that “The likelihood of developing cancer, which is the main cause of death in Navarre, increases with age and is higher in men”.

The most common tumors depending on gender

Thus most common types of cancer in men last year they were prostate (545 cases), colon and rectum (483 cases), lung (347 cases) and bladder (127 cases), which together amounts to 60% of the total.

V womenfor its part, stands out for its frequency mammary cancer (452 cases), colon and rectum (248 cases), lung (145 cases) and body of the uterus (114 cases), representing 55% of all diagnoses.

In year In 2022, 1,697 people died from this cause.1014 men (59.75%) and 683 women (40.25%), according to the Mortality Register, which also noted that these deaths represent 25% of all deaths: 30% in men and 19% in women. This, as Salud clarified, is “an important cause of premature death because it represents 47% of deaths among the population under the age of 75”

Deaths from lung cancer in women increased by 18%

The department emphasized that in Over the five-year period 2018-2022, cancer mortality in men decreased by 11% compared to 2013-2017 Declines in mortality were observed for most common types of cancer: lung cancer decreased by 13%; in the colon – 19%; prostate – 11%; stomach – 14%; bladder – 28%; larynx – 34%; and direct – 14%. Likewise, deaths from brain tumors and leukemia have decreased, Salud noted.

IN In women, mortality from all cancers decreased by 5% over the past five years and, nevertheless, in lungs’ cancerHe more associated with tobacco use, increased by 18% in 2018-2022 compared to the previous five-year period. However, there were reductions in mortality from colon, rectal, stomach, uterine, ovarian, leukemia and brain cancers.

They recommend not smoking

The head of the population register explained this. “The most important thing to reduce cancer mortality is to reduce incidence.” –prevent the development of the disease-.” For this he considered “It is very important to combat risk factors, the main one of which is smoking. “If we stopped this habit, the number of cancer cases and deaths would be significantly reduced.”.

In fact, this indicated that the lethality decreased more among men because “they took longer to quit smoking”. “We now see that mortality from tobacco-related cancers is falling in men, but not yet in women. In a few years, we hope to begin to see this, because smoking among the female population has also decreased, although with a delay.”

Currently, the specialist noted, “tumors occur in cohorts of women who started smoking 30 or more years ago.” In 2022, more Navarreans died from lung cancer (102) than from breast cancer (73).displacing breast tumors as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the Foral community.

NOTES

1697 deaths from cancer in Navarre. Mortality rates from cancer have declined in recent years, although almost 1,700 people die from this cause each year in Navarre. Specifically in 2022, 1,697 people died.
Recommendations for reducing cancer risk. The European Code Against Cancer recommends, among other things, stopping smoking, limiting alcohol consumption, maintaining a healthy weight, staying physically active, eating a healthy diet and participating in early detection programs for breast, colon, rectal and cervical cancer. Marcela Guevara, head of population registries, warned of the consequences of tobacco smoking and noted that “cancer has a very long latency period, and the cases we are seeing now are the result of exposure to tobacco 20 or 30 years ago.” However, he noted that there are also many tumors “associated with alcohol (oral cavity and pharynx, liver…), and if two factors coincide – tobacco and alcohol – the risk increases many times.”
Survival rate 61.7%. According to the study Survival of cancer patients in Navarre and comparison with Spain, conducted by the Institute of Public and Occupational Health, the five-year survival rate of adults diagnosed with cancer in the Foral community has improved “significantly” in recent years. Specifically, for people diagnosed between 2008 and 2016, it increased by 5.1 percentage points across all cancers overall, compared with patients diagnosed between 1999 and 2007. Thus, the net survival rate at five years after discovery was 61.7. %, although there were differences by gender: for men it was 60%, for women – 64%.

SURVIVAL…

Higher in men