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RISK OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCY IN PATIENT WITH PAST AND FAMILY HISTORY OF DISEASES - A TERTIARY HOSPITAL BASED STUDY
Dr. Chayanika Kalita, Dr. Lohit Kumar Kalita, Dr. Umesh Ch. Sarma
Abstract :
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Background:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The incidence of skin cancer is in rise. It is now more important more than ever to define an accurate aetiology of skin cancer to pave the way for appropriate preventive measures to be taken. Various studies have shown significant and insignificant association of cutaneous malignancy with family and past history of other diseases. But to our knowledge no such studies has been carried out extensively in the North-Eastern region of India. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Methods:A</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at Gauwahati Medical College & Hospital, Guwahati, Assam to understand the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">association of past and family history of <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>diseases</span>. Atotal 150 numbers of newly diagnosed cases of cutaneous malignancy were selected from the outpatient department of Dermatology of the institute over a period of three years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Results:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">(1) A</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ssociated diseases were of 87(58%) minor diseases, 39 (26%) pneumonia,12(8%)eczema, 7(4.67%)pulmonary tuberculosis, 2(1.33%)hepatitis-C infection, 2 (1.33%) venereal diseases and 1(0.671%) shingles (herpes zoster). The effect of pneumonia, eczema, and hepatitis-C infection are highly significant (p=0.00028). (2) In the study, 4(2.67%) patients had family history of cutaneous malignancy<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">. </b>Statistically the effect of family history of cutaneous malignancy of the patients is not significant. (3) In the study 147 (97.99%) patients do not have family history of other major disease. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Conclusion:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The effect of pneumonia, eczema, and hepatitis-C infection are highly significant in causation of cutaneous malignancy. The effect of family history of cutaneous malignancy of the patients is significant in selectedtype of cutaneous malignancy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dr. Chayanika Kalita, Dr. Lohit Kumar Kalita, Dr. Umesh Ch. Sarma, RISK OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCY IN PATIENT WITH PAST AND FAMILY HISTORY OF DISEASES‾A TERTIARY HOSPITAL BASED STUDY, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018
