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Nonpigmented skin lesions, how many are nonmelanoma skin cancer?

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posted on 2023-05-16, 18:52 authored by Kristen FitzGerald, Buttner, PG, Donovan, SA
BACKGROUND: Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common cancer in Australia and thus the most costly to treat. Despite the high prevalence of NMSC, little is known about the rate of malignancy in excised or biopsied nonpigmented lesions. METHOD: An audit of 912 reports relating to nonpigmented skin samples from 749 patients processed during January 2005 in Tasmania. RESULTS: Nonmelanoma skin cancer was present in 60.6% of samples from specialists and 44.5% from nonspecialists/primary care doctors (p<0.001); 1.6 skin lesions were excised or biopsied in order to identify one malignant or pre-invasive lesion (1.3 for specialists and 1.7 for nonspecialists). The number of NMSCs increased with age and were more common in men. DISCUSSION: Medical practitioners are efficient in their management of nonpigmented skin lesions in both primary and secondary care.

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Publication title

Australian Family Physician

Volume

35

Issue

7

Pagination

555-557

ISSN

0300-8495

Department/School

Tasmanian School of Medicine

Publisher

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Place of publication

Melbourne

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  • Restricted

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Other health not elsewhere classified

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