Breast Cancer in Brazil: Hospitalization Costs

Natural environmental gamma radiation exposure and prevalence of breast cancer in Poços de Caldas, MG, Brazil

Background: Environmental ionizing radiation has been associated with increased cancer risk by several studies.  The Brazilian city of Poços de Caldas, MG, seats on a huge deposit of uranium, which was until recently mined.  We performed a retrospective analysis of  310 cases of patients with breast cancer, who were exposed for at least ten years to different levels of ion...

the direct medical costs of breast cancer in isfahan-iran

Hospitalization due to road traffic injuries in Brazil, 2013: hospital stay and costs.

Objetivo: to describe hospitalization rates and to estimate hospital costs and time spent in hospital due to road traffic accidents (RTA) in Brazil, in 2013. Methods: this is an ecological study conducted using data from the Brazilian National Hospital Information System. Results: in 2013, 170,805 hospitalizations due to RTA were funded by the Brazilian National Health System; 78.2% of the ...

Years of potential life lost and hospitalization costs associated with leptospirosis in Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To estimate costs of hospitalization and years of potential life lost associated with leptospirosis. METHODS Databases of the Brazilian Ministry of Health's information system were used to carry out probabilistic linkage of cases and hospitalizations leading to death by leptospirosis in 2007. Within the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, confirmed cases were subdivided into...

Risk factors for breast cancer in Brazil.

Sir—In a recent article by Gomes et al} they report the findings of a case-control study of risk factors for breast cancer in Brazil. They conclude that potential risk factors behave in the same way as demonstrated in the rest of the world and that the study provides clear documentation of 'breast cancer epidemiology' (p. 292) in Brazil. We would like to highlight some apparent oversights by th...