Correlation of Basal Cell Carcinoma Variables with Operation Variables: Which Factors can Improve Patients` Treatment Burden?

Vera Fuhrmann, Julian Lommen, DamanD Singh, Norbert R Kübler and Henrik Holtmann

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany

^*Correspondance to: Julian Lommen 

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Abstract:

Background: The burden of Basal Cell Carcinomas (BCCs) for the health care system is high and prevention and therapy need to be perfected.
Methods: Information of 222 patients with 344 BCCs was collected. Descriptive measures were compared with other studies to prove if the characteristics of BCCs or the patients’ characteristics have changed over time. Then the descriptive measures were correlated with “operation variables” to evaluate if there are points to improve concerning the therapy. Therefore, among others the ANOVA, t-test, Chi square test and Fisher’s exact test were used. The p value was set at 0.05.
Results: The ratio of men to women was 1.4:1 (p<0.05). The mean age of patients was 72.59 years. The mean size of BCCs was 0.85 cm. Aggravating factors in relation to the “operation variables”, like the number of operations, e.g., were a higher age, a greater size of BCCs, adjacent elastosis, the localizations eye, ear and nose and the histologies morpheaform and nodular ulcerated.
Conclusion: In comparison to earlier studies the characteristics of BCCs and patients show positive developments due of the awareness of BCCs. Furthermore, the correlations demonstrate an actual encouraging state of therapy with only a few things to improve, for example the treatment of aggressive morpheaform BCCs.

Keywords:

Basal cell carcinomas; Morpheaform; Operation variables

Cite the Article:

Fuhrmann V, Lommen J, Singh DD, Kübler NR, Holtmann H. Correlation of Basal Cell Carcinoma Variables with Operation Variables: Which Factors can Improve Patients` Treatment Burden? World J Surg Surgical Res. 2018; 1: 1030.