Frecuencia de hallazgos positivos, diagnosticados por el estudio radiológico serie ósea metastásica en el Instituto del Cáncer SOLCA Cuenca desde enero 2017 – enero 2021. Cuenca 2021

Abstract

Background: The development of a metastasis develops from a primary cancer, thisfrequency study is convenient to generate records and statistics of cases, in order to indicate the figures and look for a common antecedent that can solve or act as a risk factors in the population, because in Ecuador the statistics are alarming, the updated statistics in the country show that the prevalence of bone metastases in breast cancer patients was 66% and 34% in prostate cancer occurred between 45 and 70 year old patients. Objective: The objective is to determine the frequency of positive results by analyzing the database of the Imaging area of the Solca Cuenca Cancer Institute of patients who have undergone the metastatic bone series radiology exam from January 2017 to January 2021. Cuenca 2021. Methodology: It is a descriptive, quantitative, observational and retrospective research, where data will be collected using a form that will allow the results to be classified according to the variables age, gender, type of primary cancer, location and type of lesion, which will be processed, tabulated and analyzed in the SPSSV15.0 program. Expected results: The expected results are of a similar percentage to the study carried out in 2015, where the primary cancer that develops metastasis in women is breastcancer and prostate cancer in men. This comparative study with previous research will determine the growth of the morbidity rate of bone metastases in Ecuador that are indicative of the palliative medicine requirements