Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra deBarbosa, Isabelle RibeiroCosta, Íris do Céu ClaraBernal, María Milagros2023-10-162023-10-162016SOUZA, Dyego Leandro Bezerra de; BARBOSA, Isabelle Ribeiro; COSTA, Íris do Céu Clara; BERNAL, María Milagros. Tendência das taxas de mortalidade pelas dez principais causas de óbitos por câncer no Brasil, 1996-2012. Revista Ciência Plural, [S.L.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 03-16, 30 ago. 2016. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.21680/2446-7286.2016v2n1id8886. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/rcp/article/view/8886. Acesso em: 01 out. 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/54999Objective: To analyze trends in mortality by ten leading causes of cancer deaths in Brazil.Methods: Time series analysis with data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) of cancer deaths in the period 1996 to 2012. It was used to Joinpoint regression.Results: Formales, have increasing trends prostate cancers (APC= 1.3% CI95% 0.6-1.9) of the liver (APC= 1.7% CI95% 1.2-2.1), and colon and rectum (APC= 1.8% CI95% 1.4-2.2); for females, the lung cancers (AAPC= 2.4% CI95% 1.9-2.9) and breast (APC= 0.5% CI95% 0,1.-1.0); for brain cancers and pancreatic there was an increasing trend for both sexes. Conclusions: distinct patterns in mortality trends were observed in relation to sex, such as the lung, liver and colon, as well as increasing trend for prostate and breast cancersmortalidadeneoplasiastendênciasestudos ecológicossexosexmortalityneoplasmsarticlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.21680/2446-7286.2016v2n1id8886