¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?

This paper analyses the information of the Ministry of Health on gallbladder cancer mortality in Chile since 1997. It becomes evident that the decrease in mortality in the last two years is only apparent and due to a statistical artifact, caused by the non validated application of the Tenth Internat...

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Autor principal:	Serra C,Iván
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2001
Materias:	Classification Gallbladder neoplasms Mortality Public health
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720010009000162005-11-24¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?Serra C,Iván Classification Gallbladder neoplasms Mortality Public health This paper analyses the information of the Ministry of Health on gallbladder cancer mortality in Chile since 1997. It becomes evident that the decrease in mortality in the last two years is only apparent and due to a statistical artifact, caused by the non validated application of the Tenth International Classification of Diseases. There is a consensus that one of the causes for an increase in gallbladder cancer in a specific country is a decrease in cholecystectomy rates. This association has been clearly demonstrated in Chile, but no control program for gallbladder cancer has been devised, considering that an early cholecystectomy is a good secondary prevention measure (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129; 1079-84)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.129 n.9 20012001-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872001000900016es10.4067/S0034-98872001000900016
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spellingShingle	Classification Gallbladder neoplasms Mortality Public health Serra C,Iván ¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
description	This paper analyses the information of the Ministry of Health on gallbladder cancer mortality in Chile since 1997. It becomes evident that the decrease in mortality in the last two years is only apparent and due to a statistical artifact, caused by the non validated application of the Tenth International Classification of Diseases. There is a consensus that one of the causes for an increase in gallbladder cancer in a specific country is a decrease in cholecystectomy rates. This association has been clearly demonstrated in Chile, but no control program for gallbladder cancer has been devised, considering that an early cholecystectomy is a good secondary prevention measure (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129; 1079-84)
author	Serra C,Iván
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title	¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
title_short	¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
title_full	¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
title_fullStr	¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
title_full_unstemmed	¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?
title_sort	¿ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en chile?
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2001
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¿Ha disminuido la mortalidad por cáncer vesicular en Chile?

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