Characteristics and in-hospital morbidity trends associated with oral and oropharyngeal cancers in Brazil

de Miranda Vargas, Deborah Gomes; da Cunha, Amanda Ramos; Probst, Livia Fernandes; Zafalon, Edílson José; Pereira, Paulo Zárate; da Silva Tagliaferro, Elaine Pereira; De-Carli, Alessandro Diogo

doi:10.1186/s12903-022-02312-0

BMC Oral Health

Table 2 Distribution of hospital admissions due to oral and oropharyngeal cancers; percentage by anatomical site, gender, skin color, level of schooling, age group, alcohol and tobacco consumption, by macroregion. Brazil, 2000–2015

From: Characteristics and in-hospital morbidity trends associated with oral and oropharyngeal cancers in Brazil

Variables	Macroregion (%)					Total Brazil
Variables	North	Northeast	Southeast	South	Midwest	n	%
Anatomical site
Lip	3.83	6.29	6.81	8.32	3.95	8315	6.82
Tongue	27.04	28.49	29.44	27.73	31.24	35,240	28.89
Other parts of mouth	38.14	35.89	31.75	30.49	33.87	39,855	32.68
Salivary glands	10.60	8.93	6.69	8.49	8.61	9365	7.68
Oropharynx	20.39	20.40	25.30	24.97	22.32	29,196	23.94
Gender
Male	67.33	68.65	78.69	80.30	77.61	93,184	76.40
Female	32.67	31.34	21.30	19.69	22.39	28,780	23.60
No information	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	7	0.01
Skin color
White	21.81	17.34	21.44	83.56	36.41	39,313	32.23
Black	4.97	4.75	5.21	3.62	6.05	5894	4.83
Yellow	0.70	1.09	0.23	0.40	0.91	590	0.48
Brown	55.21	67.54	16.82	4.65	41.74	33,677	27.61
Indigenous	0.29	0.17	0.05	0.03	0.17	99	0.08
No information	17.02	9.10	56.24	7.74	14.72	42,393	34.76
Level of schooling
None	18.93	23.49	23.49	5.90	12.19	14,705	12.06
Incomplete Elementary	40.05	30.90	30.90	36.36	25.46	44,622	36.58
Complete Elementary	11.03	9.00	9.00	17.47	13.20	17,006	13.94
High School	9.46	6.76	6.76	9.26	6.21	10,435	8.56
Higher Education	2.46	1.70	1.70	2.74	1.82	3436	2.82
No information	18.03	28.12	28.12	28.26	41.10	31,767	26.04
Age range
20–29 years	2.29	1.37	0.99	1.25	1.50	1423	1.17
30–39 years	5.05	4.06	3.67	3.41	5.14	4586	3.78
40–49 years	15.68	14.49	17.86	17.61	19.97	20,663	17.05
50–59 years	26.01	25.95	32.57	33.69	31.52	37,678	31.09
60–69 years	23.25	24.74	25.06	25.56	23.54	30,287	24.99
70–79 years	17.62	18.42	13.93	13.48	13.59	18,112	14.94
80 years or older	9.95	10.97	5.92	5.00	4.74	8435	6.96
No information	0.15	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	10	0.01
Alcohol consumption
Never	25.65	23.78	10.25	18.08	13.81	18,560	15.22
Ex-consumer	9.32	6.75	5.32	8.73	6.01	7795	6.39
Yes	37.41	28.07	22.08	29.46	25.43	30,828	25.27
Not assessed	27.62	41.41	62.3	43.73	54.75	64,788	53.12
Smoking
Never	16.5	15.7	7.05	11.15	10.13	12,278	10.07
Ex-smoker	12.66	8.38	4.6	7.5	5.54	7586	6.22
Yes	52.4	39.41	27.42	43.12	34.79	41,281	33.84
Not assessed	18.44	36.51	60.93	38.24	49.54	60,826	49.87

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