Sociodemographic predictors of endometrial cancer mortality in South Africa (1997 to 2015): a case-control study

Abstract

South Africa is currently undergoing epidemiological and health transition that may impact on the risk factors of endometrial cancer mortality. We evaluated the sociodemographic characteristics of women that died from endometrial cancer in South Africa from 1997 to 2015. An unmatched case control study was conducted to compare the sociodemographic characteristic of women that died from endometrial cancer cases (n = 3,955) with the characteristics of women that died from other cancers (controls, n = 66,202) using the population-based mortality data from Statistics South Africa. Unconditional binary logistic regression modelling was conducted. The Mean age of women that died from endometrial cancer was 66.7 ± 11.9 years. The odds of death from endometrial cancer among women aged ≥50 years was about 4-fold as compared to women younger than 50 years (AOR = 3.98 95% CI: 3.14 − 5.03; p value: