Prevalence and associated factors of skin cancer in aged nursing home residents: A multicenter prevalence study.

ABSTRACT: Non-melanoma-skin cancer is an emerging clinical problem in the elderly, fair skinned population which predominantly affects patients aged older than 70 years. Its steady increase in incidence rates and morbidity is paralleled by related medical costs. Despite the fact that many elderly patients are in need of care and are living in nursing homes, specific data on the prevalence of skin cancer in home care and the institutional long-term care setting is currently lacking. A representative multicenter prevalence study was conducted in a random sample of ten institutional long-term care facilities in the federal state of Berlin, Germany. In total, n = 223 residents were included. Actinic keratoses, the precursor lesions of invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma were the most common epith

SUBMITTER: Akdeniz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6476496 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature