Lung Cancer Mortality Pattern in Thailand, 2019

Worldwide, lung cancer is a serious public health issue. The aim of this paper was to investigate the patterns of lung cancer mortality in Thailand, 2019. Two datasets provided by the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, one is Verbal Autopsy (VA) and the other is Vital Registration (VR) were utilized. The VA study was conducted in the selected nine provinces in 2019 with a total number of 8,848 deaths, whereas 377 (4.3%) cases were accounted for deaths from lung cancer. On the other hand, the VR data reporting the total number of 488,503 deaths for the entire country in 2019 with 15,675 (3.2%) cases were accounted for deaths by lung cancer. A logistic regression model was applied to obtain the estimated proportion of deaths by lung cancer. After that, a triangulation method was utilized, and then the logistic regression model was applied to project the number of deaths by lung cancer in 2019 for the entire nation. It was discovered that males aged 50–79 and females aged 50–69 have statistically significant proportions of death by lung cancer higher than the overall mean (3.14%). Moreover, geographically, the proportion of deaths by lung cancer was the highest in the north and the lowest in the south. Additionally, the proportion of deaths by lung cancer for both genders aged younger than 50 and older than 80 years was statistically significantly lower than the overall mean. However, among the patients who are older, they might die from other comorbidities.