Retrospevtive investigation of diagnosed basal cell carcinoma cases in our clinic in the last 5 years

Objectives:Basal cell carcinomais the most common malignancy of the skin and its incidence is gradually increasing. In the study, age, gender, tumor histopathological subtype, tumor localization, comorbid diseases accompanying in the patients diagnosed in our clinic were determined and analyzed retrospectively. Methods: 273 tumors in 256 patients with histopathological diagnosis of Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) were included in the study.While the histopathological subtypes were examined, the histopathological types were grouped as nodular, superficial, morpehiform, infiltrative, adenoid, basosquamous, keratotic, mixed, pigmented and micronodular.While specifying anatomical localization, the body was divided into 4 regions as head-neck, trunk, upper limb and lower limb.The head-neck region is divided into 6 sub-regions as the nose, forehead, cheeks, preauricular region, lips, perioral region, and the trunk is divided into 2 sub-regions as the front of the trunk and the back of the trunk. Results:The average age of 256 BCC patients was 67.67 and the youngest of patient was 32 and the oldest was 104 years old. The gender groups of the patients were 137 men (56.5%) and 119 were women (46.5%). The average age of male patients was 68.24±12.81, and the average age of female patients was 67.02 ± 14.18. The most common type was nodular type with tumor histopathological subtype 61.5% (n=168) and the most common tumor was in the head and neck region as 88.3% (n=241). The most common comorbid disease of the patients was hypertension (68.4%). Conclusion:In our study, it was observed that basal cell carcinoma was most frequently in the 70-80 age range, in the head and neck region, most commonly in the nodular type. Increased female incidence at an early age. Keywords:Basal Cell Carcinoma, Histopathological Subtype, Anatomical Distribution