hospitalizations in pediatric and adult patients for all cancer type in italy: the epikit study under the e.u. coheirs project on environment and health

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Abstract
Background: Cancer Registries (CRs) remain the gold standard for providing official epidemiological estimations. However, due to CRs’ partial population coverage, hospitalization records might represent a valuable tool to provide additional information on cancer occurrence and expenditures at national/regional level for research purposes. The Epidemiology of Cancer in Italy (EPIKIT) study group has been built up, within the framework of the Civic Observers for Health and Environment: Initiative of Responsibility and Sustainability (COHEIRS) project under the auspices of the Europe for Citizens Program, to assess population health indicators. Objective: To assess the burden of all cancers in Italian children and adults. Methods: We analyzed National Hospitalization Records from 2001 to 2011. Based on social security numbers (anonymously treated), we have excluded from our analyses all re-hospitalizations of the same patients (n = 1,878,109) over the entire 11-year period in order to minimize the overlap between prevalent and incident cancer cases. To be more conservative, only data concerning the last five years (2007–2011) have been taken into account for final analyses. The absolute number of hospitalizations and standardized hospitalization rates (SHR) were computed for each Italian province by sex and age-groups (0–19 and 20–49). Results: The EPIKIT database included a total of 4,113,169 first hospital admissions due to main diagnoses of all tumors. The annual average number of hospital admissions due to cancer in Italy has been computed in 2362 and 43,141 hospitalizations in pediatric patients (0–19 years old) and adults (20–49 years old), respectively. Women accounted for the majority of cancer cases in adults aged 20–49. As expected, the big city of Rome presented the highest average annual number of pediatric cancers (n = 392, SHR = 9.9), followed by Naples (n = 378; SHR = 9.9) and Milan (n = 212; SHR = 7.3). However, when we look at SHR, minor cities (i.e., Imperia, Isernia and others) presented values >10 per 100,000, with only 10 or 20 cases per year. Similar figures are shown also for young adults aged 20–49. Conclusions: In addition to SHR, the absolute number of incident cancer cases represents a crucial piece of information for planning adequate healthcare services and assessing social alarm phenomena. Our findings call for specific risk assessment programs at local level (involving CRs) to search for causal relations with environmental exposures.
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Authors ;Prisco Piscitelli;Immacolata Marino;Andrea Falco;Matteo Rivezzi;Roberto Romano;Restituta Mazzella;Cosimo Neglia;Giulia Della Rosa;Giuseppe Pellerano;Giuseppe Militerno;Adriana Bonifacino;Gaetano Rivezzi;Roberto Romizi;Giuseppe Miserotti;Maurizio Montella;Fabrizio Bianchi;Alessandra Marinelli;Antonella De Donno;Giovanni De Filippis;Giuseppe Serravezza;Gianluca Di Tanna;Dennis Black;Valerio Gennaro;Mario Ascolese;Alessandro Distante;Ernesto Burgio;Massimo Crespi;Annamaria Colao
Journal archives of biochemistry and biophysics
Year 2017
DOI
10.3390/ijerph14050495
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http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/5/495
Keywords
Children pediatric cancer cancer incidence hospitalizations

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