[Epidemiologic aspects of cancer of the skin in Uruguay].
The authors describe the demographic characteristics of Uruguay. The annual rate of mortality by skin cancer, except melanoma, is of 0.6 100,000 inhabitants. It has been calculated an incidence of 725 new cases a year. The Oncology Institute casuistic of 361 cases recorded from 1973 to 1978 show a promedial age of 65 years, all of white race, with neat predominance of male sex for epitheliomes of exposed areas and identical distribution for those of truck and limbs. Most of the patients with head and neck tumours were from rural areas. All this data confirm that the sunlight is the principal induction factor of non melanoma skin cancer in Uruguay.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D014583:Uruguay
Aspectos epidemiológicos del cáncer de piel en Uruguay.