Características del cáncer de piel no melanoma en los pacientes de consulta externa de dermatología del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca 2013-2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Non-melanoma skin cancer is a pathology of with great impact worldwide due to its high incidence, whose main risk factor is solar radiation, is constituted by basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the characteristics of non-melanoma skin cancer (MNSC) in the external consultation patients of Dermatology Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso in the period 2013 - 2017.

METHODOLOGY: Descriptive and retrospective study. The universe was 278 clinical histories of patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer at Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, whose data were collected in a form, tabulated in Microsoft Excel and analyzed in SPSS version 24 qualitatively (f, %) and quantitatively (, DS). The results were presented in simple tables. RESULTS: Basal cell carcinoma was the most prevalent with 75,9% while squamous cell carcinoma accounted for 24.1%. The mean age was 72,98 years (± 15,33 years), with 77.3% predominating in those older than 65 years, being the female sex more frequent (56.5%) and 94.6% lived at an altitude ≥ 2000 m.s.n.m. Only 1.8% presented a previous history of non-melanoma cancer, in terms of anatomical topography 83.5% was located on the head and 90.3% was treated by surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Basal cell carcinoma was the most common type of non-melanoma skin cancer, affecting a greater percentage of patients women ≥ 65 years of age, the head being the most susceptible and surgical treatment the method of choice