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GARCIA MASSO, Dunia et al. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of patients with epithelial cutaneous non melanoma tumors. MEDISAN [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp. 260-270. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study of 87 patients with non melanoma cutaneous tumors, assisted in the Dermatology Service of Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January, 2012 to the same month of 2014 with the objective of characterizing them according to clinical and epidemiological variables of interest for the investigation. The information was collected from the medical records and from the pathology reports. For quantitative and qualitative variables, means, absolute frequency and the relative frequency were used as summary measures. In the series, the basocelular carcinoma (60,0 %), male sex, the white skin patients and those older than 50 years prevailed; also, the head turned to be the most affected topographical region and the most frequent nodular clinical type. According to the occupation, farmers and bricklayers were mostly related to this type of skin cancer.

Palavras-chave : non melanoma epithelial tumor; basocelular carcinoma; spinocelular carcinoma; secondary care.

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