A Profile and Three-Year Follow-Up of Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma in the Western Cape, South Africa

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with BCC (N = 149).

Variable	Frequency, n	Percentage, %
Gender
Male	83	55.7
Female	66	44.3
Population group
White	128	85.9
Mixed ancestry	18	12.1
Black African	1	0.7
Indian/Asian	1	0.7
Not known	1	0.7
Risk factors
Chronic sun exposure	8	5.4
Immunosuppression	5	3.4
Site of prior radiation	3	2.0
Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA)	1	0.7
Immunosuppression and OCA	1	0.7
Immunosuppression and previous psoralen ultraviolet a (PUVA) therapy	1	0.7
None	29	19.5
Not known	101	67.8
Previous history of skin cancer
Unspecified KC	43	28.9
Basal cell carcinoma	24	16.1
Squamous cell carcinoma	4	2.7
Cutaneous melanoma	3	2.0
KC and cutaneous melanoma	8	5.4
KC and other skin cancers	2	1.3
None	11	7.4
Not known	54	36.2