Characteristic of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Tertiary Health Care

Radema Maradong, Yulia Farida Yahya, Theresia Lumban Toruan

2018

Abstract

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is cutaneous non melanoma cancer usually found in Caucasian with incidence rate 70%-80% from all cutaneous malignant, in Asia 10-100x lower than Europe and America. The purpose of this study is to know the characteristic of BCC such as incidence, sex, age, occupation, location and clinicohistopathology feature. Study method is retrospective descriptive study, the data was taken from medical record of BCC patient in Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Surgery, Department of Ophtamology and Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat in Dr. Mohammad Hoesin General Hospital from January 2014 – December 2016. The result from 193 medical records of four Departments found 104 cases (53.9%) affected inmaleand 89 cases (46.1%) in female. Male to female ratio is 1.2:1, mostly occur in age 55-64 years old (37.8%).We found 92 cases (47.7%) in a farmer, which 98 cases (50.8%) occur on thenasalis region, and 172 cases (89.2%) are nodular type. In conclusion, male are often affected than female in elderly, with the nasalis region is the most common site of BCC and mostly occupation as a farmer. The Sun exposure to UV radiation is undoubtely of great factor. The clinicohistophatology features are nodular type. These characteristicsof BCC were similar to other Asian studies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Maradong R., Yahya Y. and Toruan T. (2018). Characteristic of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Tertiary Health Care.In Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD, ISBN 978-989-758-494-7, pages 5-8. DOI: 10.5220/0008149500050008

in Bibtex Style

@conference{rcd18,
author={Radema Maradong and Yulia Farida Yahya and Theresia Lumban Toruan},
title={Characteristic of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Tertiary Health Care},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,},
year={2018},
pages={5-8},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008149500050008},
isbn={978-989-758-494-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,
TI - Characteristic of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Tertiary Health Care
SN - 978-989-758-494-7
AU - Maradong R.
AU - Yahya Y.
AU - Toruan T.
PY - 2018
SP - 5
EP - 8
DO - 10.5220/0008149500050008