[Survival rate of 10 years among women with breast cancer: a historic cohort from 2000-2014].

Breast cancer is a public health problem due to its high incidence, morbidity and mortality. The analysis of survival for this disease contributes to the description of behavior and prognostic factors. The scope of this article is to investigate survival for 10 years after diagnosis and the prognostic factors of women with breast cancer admitted to the Unified Health System Mastology Service in Joinville, State of Santa Catarina, between 2000 and 2014.

[Survival of women with breast cancer, of a city in the south of Brazil].

A retrospective cohort study was carried out aiming to evaluate the survival of 655 women with breast cancer, seen in the Single Health System, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. For the analysis of survival, the method of Kaplan-Meier and Cox model was applied. The survival according to the staging of women was significantly different in accordance with the results of the test of Log-rank Test.