Incidence of basal cell carcinoma and clinical-epidemiological profile of patients in the South Health Area from Ciego de Ávila municipality

Abstract

Introduction: basal cell carcinoma is the most frequent skin cancer. It represents between 70% and 80% of non-melanoma skin neoplasms.

Objectives: to determine the incidence of basal cell carcinoma in the South Health Area in a period of six years and to describe the clinical-epidemiological profile of the patients.

Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study in the population aged 30 years and over from the South Health Area in Ciego de Ávila municipality. It worked with the 139 patients who met the inclusion criteria from January 2014 to December 2019. The information was obtained from the biopsy model and the biopsy records of the dermatology consultation of the South Community Polyclinic and the Department of Pathological Anatomy of Ciego de Ávila Hospital. Ethical principles were met.

Results: 2019 was the year with the most diagnosed (39.57%) and the highest incidence (34.35 per 10,000 inhabitants). The age group from 70 to 79 years (23.02%), the male sex (55.40%), the solid histological type (35.97%), the back of the nose as a location (20.14%) and skin phototype II (48.92%) predominated.

Conclusions: the increase in incidence was evident during the six years studied. It predominated in men older than 70 years, with cutaneous phenotype II, and solid histological type on the back of the nose as an anatomical location