[Cancer mortality in women from Cadiz. 1975-1983]

Both in Spain and in the rest of industrialized countries, cancer is the second caused mortality in accordance with its incidence. Respect to the different Autonomous Communities, Andalucia is that where men are at most unfavorable situation, and women are within the most unfavored. Out of all the Provinces which constituted this Community, mainly Cadiz attracted attention by its systematically and constantly growing rates of that tumors present in the most common localizations. The aim of the present work is to study, by means of death certificate dates, the mortality rate of women from Cadiz between 1975-1983. Mortality rate was 104.08 decease per 100,000 inhabitants. The cut off rate of female population older than 40 years was 287.77. The temporal trend of women cancer in our ambient was studied comparing the mortality rates with the incidence rates from some Spanish Populational-Based Cancer Registers (Granada, Murcia, Tarragona and Navarra). We conclude that in Cadiz Province there is a higher number of women decreased by cancer, mainly by liver cancers.