Incidence and mortality by larynx cancer in Central and South America.

Objective: To describe how the incidence and mortality trends for laryngeal cancer in South and Central American countries.

Methods: Time series study, with incidence data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, from 1990 to 2012 and mortality data from 17 countries of the World Health Organization, from 1995 to 2013. The trend was analyzed by Joinpoint regression.

Gender and Regional Differences in Lung Cancer Mortality in Brazil.

Background And Objective: This was a population-based ecological with data of deaths from the Mortality Information System. The objective of this study was to analyze the temporal trends of mortality induced by bronchi and lung cancer in Brazil and its geographical regions between 2001 and 2015 and secondly to calculate predictions for 2016-2030.

Material And Methods: The mortality trends were analyzed by the Joinpoint regression and calculation of predictions was used the Nordpred software.