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Table 1 The number of participants with skin cancers or precursors

From: Skin cancers and their risk factors in older persons: a population-based study

 

Total body skin examination

Care Register of Health Care data

n = 141

n = 80

Actinic keratosis

123 (87.2%)

37 (46.2%)

Bowen’s disease

9 (6.38%)

2 (2.50%)

Melanoma

3 (2.13%)

1 (1.2%)

Basal cell carcinoma

28 (19.9%)

29 (36.2%)

Squamous cell carcinoma

2 (1.42%)

6 (7.5%)

Melanoma in situ

 

1 (1.25%)

Unspecified skin cancera

 

6 (7.5%)

  1. aUnspecified due to missing histological classification