Evaluation of Mexico’s low cancer mortality using two national death registries

Abstract: Objective: To compare cancer mortality rates in Mexico from two national death registries that independently code and attribute cause of death. Materials and methods: We compared 5-year age-standardized total cancer and site-specific cancer mortality rates (2010-2014) from Mexico’s official death registry with a death registry from a disease surveillance system. We obtained age-adjusted mortality rates and 95% confidence intervals using the direct method and World Population Prospects 2010 as a standard. Results: Cancer mortality estimates for Mexico were minimally affected by the use of two distinct death certificate-coding procedures. Cancer mortality was 73.3 forInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografíaand 72.7 for System for Epidemiolo gic Death Statistics per 100 000 women. The corresponding estimates for men were 68.3 and 67.8. Conclusion: Mexico’s low cancer mortality is unlikely to be explained by death certificate processing. Further investigations into the process of death certification and cancer registration should be conducted in Mexico.

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Main Authors:	Lozano-Esparza,Susana, Stern,Dalia, Hernández-Ávila,Juan Eugenio, Morales-Carmona,Evangelina, Mohar,Alejandro, Lajous,Martín
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 2020
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-36342020000200181
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