Visualización geográfica de la tasa de mortalidad por cáncer de mama, cérvix y de próstata en el Ecuador.

Abstract

Cancer is a disease that occurs in the human body and has its onset with the uncontrolled growth of the cells of the body, invading tissues and organs. In Ecuador there is information on the subject, but it is not always understandable, so that, in order to have more visual data, it was planned to calculate the mortality rate and number of deaths from breast, cervix and prostate cancer and present results through geographic visualization maps, through the use of the free software programming tool R, for which information was collected from INEC for the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, which was entered into the software to be processed; R used appropriate routines and programming statements to get the data needed; for the presentation of the information a friendly user interface was developed. From the results, it is concluded that both the death rate and the number of deaths from the three types of cancer are generally recorded in the same provinces, that is, that these indicators do not decrease over the years despite of medical advances and health policies.