Epidemiology study of skin epidermal tumors in patients referred to Sina hospital skin clinic from 2018 to 2021

Abstract

The studies conducted in the field of epidemiology of skin cancer have been limited, scattered and with various methods. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of skin tumors in patients referred to the Skin Clinic of Sinai Hospital. Skin cancer is caused by the abnormal growth of cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Research materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, after the approval and receipt of the code of ethics and consent from the patients, according to the entry and exit criteria of the participants (all skin cancer patients referred to Sinai Hospital clinic from 2015 to September 2014). Their information was collected by a checklist. Patient information including sex, age, marital status, education and type of lesion was collected. Finally, the information was coded into spss software and analyzed. Results: In this study, 1305 patients (900 men, 405 women) with an average age of 63.45 ± 6.72 years were examined. 63.90% of the patients lived in villages and 48.12% of the patients were farmers. 71.41% of basal tuberculous carcinoma (BCC) patients, 18.62% of squamous tubercular carcinoma (SCC) patients, 1.91% of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) patients, 2.22% of keratoacanthoma patients and 6.59% of seborrheic keratosis patients.