BACKGROUND: A Skin Cancer Registry was established in the province of Trento in northeast Italy in 1992 with the aim of collecting data on all @entity5 affecting residents. These @entity5 are responsible for considerable morbidity and utilization of the Health Service because of their high frequency and, therefore, knowledge of the exact incidence is very important in planning health policies. Registry data are also very helpful in performing studies of analytical and descriptive epidemiology. METHODS: For each @entity1 , we collected personal data, phenotypical characteristics, professional history, concurrent diseases, previous therapy or @entity130 , and all data regarding the @entity5 . @entity1 were interviewed in @entity1 or, less frequently, by phone. All data were verified and put in a computerized file, in a protected room. The Statistics Institute of Trento University analyzed the data. Comparison among means was performed using the analysis of variance and differences among proportions were tested by chi-squared analysis. Poisson regression and the likelihood ratio test were used to compare incidence rates. We analyze here the data regarding epiteliomas and @entity320 . RESULTS: During the study period we registered 3435 primary @entity1489 in 2868 individuals. Crude incidence rates, calculated using the number of subjects (not the number of @entity5 ), were 87.9 for @entity1491 ( @entity1491 ), 28.9 for @entity957 ( @entity957 ), and 14.2 for @entity320 ( @entity320 ), per 100,000 per annum. We also calculated the same figures in females and males and specific incidence rates in both sexes and evaluated the distribution of skin @entity5 according to sex and anatomical site. CONCLUSION: We report the analysis of the data collected by the Skin Cancer registry in a 6 year period and compare the data with published data in literature and with data of a previously registered @entity320 file. Our results confirm the high incidence of @entity1489 and the variation in the histological patterns of @entity320 .

Epidemiology of @entity1489 : data from the cutaneous XXXX registry in Trentino, Italy.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patient', 'person'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cutaneous tumors', 'cancer', 'neoplasms', 'tumors'] @entity1489 :: ('MESH:D012878', 'Disease') :: ['skin tumors', 'nonmelanoma skin cancers'] @entity957 :: ('MESH:D002294', 'Disease') :: ['squamous cell carcinoma', 'SCC'] @entity1491 :: ('MESH:D002280', 'Disease') :: ['basal cell carcinoma', 'BCC'] @entity320 :: ('MESH:D008545', 'Disease') :: ['melanoma', 'CM', 'cutaneous melanoma'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma']
@entity5 :: (MESH:D009369,Disease) :: ['cancer']
