A Prevalence Rate and Prognostic Contributing Factors of Non-Melanoma Scalp Cancer due to Childhood Radiotherapy in Subjects Attending to Hazrat-e-Fatemeh Hospital between 2010 and 2015

Introduction & Skin cancers are the most important types of malignancies. Identify of the risk factors can play a role in reducing the incidence of non melanoma cancer. This study was performed to determine the prevalence rate and contributing factors of prognosis in non-melanoma scalp cancer due to childhood radiotherapy in subjects attending to Hazrat-e-Fatemeh Hospital.
In this observational study that was performed as a cross-sectional comparative survey, 62 consecutive patients with non-melanoma scalp cancer due to childhood radiotherapy attending to Hazrat-e-Fatemeh Hospital between 2010 and 2015 were enrolled and the prevalence rate and prognostic contributing factors (including metastasis, recurrence, and mortality) for it were determined among them.
The findings revealed that bad prognosis was present in 48 patients (77.4%). Higher age, male gender, negative family history, and presence of tumor with size larger than 2 centimeter were related to bad prognosis (P According to the obtained results, it may be concluded that more than three-forth of subjects with non-melanoma scalp cancer due to childhood radiotherapy would have bad prognosis which is a multidimensional entity.