Profile of Melanoma Cases in a University Hospital, 2003 to 2007
Introduction: The incidence of melanoma has increased worldwide, however little is known about its characteristics on the cases treated in university hospitals in Brazil. Objective: To evaluate the epidemiological profile of the reported cases of melanoma in the Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal U...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:rbc.inca.gov.br:article/523 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://rbc.inca.gov.br/index.php/revista/article/view/523 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Neoplasias Cutâneas Melanoma-diagnóstico Melanoma-epidemiologia Melanoma-etiologia Hospitais Universitários Skin Neoplasms Melanoma-diagnosis Melanoma-epidemiology Melanoma-etiology Hospitals, University Neoplasias Cutáneas Melanoma-epidemiología Melanoma-etiología Hospitales Universitarios |
| Sumario: | Introduction: The incidence of melanoma has increased worldwide, however little is known about its characteristics on the cases treated in university hospitals in Brazil. Objective: To evaluate the epidemiological profile of the reported cases of melanoma in the Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University of Paraná in the period 2003-2007. Method: Retrospective descriptive study of medical records of confirmed cases of melanoma. The variables analyzed were: sex, age, primary tumor location and histological type according to the database of the Cancer Hospital Registry. Results: Based on the hospital database, a total of 71 cases were recorded and histologically confirmed during the timeframe considered. The profile found was of white patients (98.2%), male (50.7%), age 40 or older (85.9%), median 58 years, presenting injury between one to five years of evolution (48,6%) in the regions of the trunk (29,6%), head and neck (25,4%), nodular type (22%) and superficial spreading melanoma (22%). The majority of the melanomas lesions filled the ABCD rule (asymmetry, edge, changed color and diameter) and 22,2% of patients had metastases. Conclusion: The melanoma predominated in white patients in the sixth decade of life, thoracic location and histological nodular type with metastatic or lymph node repercussions. |
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