Objective: to describe the profile of individuals with lip cancer diagnosed in 2020 residing in Minas Gerais. Methods: descriptive study with a quantitative approach. Clinical and epidemiological data of individuals with lip cancer diagnosed in 2020 residents in Minas Gerais were evaluated. Inclusion criteria were data available in the system and incomplete data were excluded. An analysis of the data available in the hospital records of the Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA) was carried out in the most recent historical series, and a descriptive analysis of the data was performed. The study was carried out during the month of June 2022. Results: in the analysis of the most recent data recorded in the INCA hospital records system, 70 cases of lip cancer were reported, the male sex was the most predominant (65.8%) , the most frequent age groups were respectively 60 to 64 years (14.2%), 70 to 74 years (12.8%) and 75 to 79 (17.1%), the white color was the most frequent (51, 4%), with incomplete primary education also the most common (44.2%), married marital status (45.7%) was the most recorded. The history of tobacco use was present in most cases (51.4%), in relation to the histological type, squamous cell carcinoma predominated (87.1%), with TNM staging classified as 1 more commonly (35.7%). registered and the most used therapeutic modality was surgery (65.7%) to the detriment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Conclusion: the data indicated male patients in an advanced age group, white and married with low education. There was an association between smoking and the diagnosis of cancer, with squamous cell carcinoma being the most frequent, with surgery being the most used therapeutic modality.
Objective: to describe the profile of individuals residing in Montes Claros with oral cancer in the 2015/2019 historical series. Method: descriptive study with a quantitative approach. Clinical and epidemiological data of individuals with oral cancer residing in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais were evaluated. Inclusion criteria were data available in the system and incomplete data were excluded. An analysis of the data available in the hospital records of the Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA) was carried out in the most recent historical series, and a descriptive analysis of the data was performed. The study was carried out during the month of June 2022. Results: in the analysis of the years 2015 to 2019, 312 diagnoses of oral cancer were recorded. 17.2% of individuals were female and 82.8% were male, the predominant age ranged from 50 to 69 years (55.6%), family history of cancer was negative in 37.7% of those investigated . 48.4% of the patients used tobacco or derivatives, the combined use of tobacco and alcoholic beverages was present in 83.4 of the cases. Regarding the clinicopathological variables, the highest rate corresponded to squamous cell carcinoma (97.4%), with TNM staging classified as 4 A (46.4%) more frequently and with primary location in the tongue or base of it (51, 7%). Conclusion: the data predominantly indicate male patients, aged between 50 and 69 years and without a family history of cancer, alcoholism and positive smoking, in addition to advanced carcinogenesis.
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