Incidencia del cáncer en el cantón Cuenca desde una visión de género, Cuenca 1996-2004

Abstract

Cancer chronic, multicausal and multifactorial disease has been addressed funamentalmente from biological knowledge and are very useful, but the incorporation of the gender approach to visualize the differences that are related to the formation of masculinity and femininity, that is define the ways and lifestyles, as well as exposure to the causes and risk factors that determine the probability for developing this disease. A descriptive study which identified that both morbiliad and cancer mortality is higher for women, further evienció women fall ill with this disease at early ages of life was applied more than men, and these they do more often in later stages of life. The higher incidence of cancer in women is related to high rates of reproductive cancers