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EYELID CANCER: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PROGNOSIS
- Authors: Brovkina A.F.1, Lerner M.Y.2
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Affiliations:
- Russian Medical Academy of Сontinuing Рrofessional Education
- S.P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital, Branch No 1, Eye Care Service
- Issue: Vol 6, No 4 (2016)
- Pages: 62-65
- Section: ORIgINAL ARTICLE
- Published: 08.12.2016
- URL: https://ogsh.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/253
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/2222-1468-2016-6-4-62-65
- ID: 253
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Abstract
Data on 3597 newly diagnosed patients with malignant tumors of the eye was entered in the Moscow cancer registry during 2006–2015. The frequency of eyelid cancer was 75.62 %, its incidence was 3.4 per 100 000. People usually develop the disease at the age of 46–85 with the peak at 70–80 years. Incidence in females was 66.65 % higher than in males. The rate of basal cell carcinoma was 91.14 %. In 65.7 % of the cases tumor was diagnosed on Т1–2 stages; out of them only 34 % of the patients were diagnosed at T1 stage, when the disease can be completely cured.
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A. F. Brovkina
Russian Medical Academy of Сontinuing Рrofessional Education
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Email: anab@list.ru
Build. 1, 2/1 Barrikadnaya St., Moscow 125993
Russian FederationM. Yu. Lerner
S.P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital, Branch No 1, Eye Care Service
Email: fake@neicon.ru
5 2nd Botkinskiy Proezd, Moscow 125284
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