Research Article
An Analysis of Biopsies for Suspected Skin Cancer at a Tertiary Care Dermatology Clinic in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Table 4
Skin cancer per ethnic group.
| | Type of lesion | White (, %) | Mixed ancestry (, %) | Black (, %) | Asian (, %) | Unknown (, %) | Total |
| | BCC | 225 (89.29) | 20 (7.94) | 4 (1.59) | 1 (0.40) | 2 (0.79) | 252 | | SCC | 74 (85.06) | 6 (6.90) | 6 (6.90) | 0 | 1 (1.15) | 87 | | SCCI | 31 (83.78) | 5 (13.51) | 1 (2.70) | 0 | 0 | 37 | | KS | 3 (9.68) | 3 (9.68) | 21 (67.74) | 0 | 4 (12.90) | 31 | | MM | 24 (85.71) | 3 (10.71) | 1 (3.57) | 0 | 0 | 28 | | KA | 18 (85.71) | 2 (9.52) | 0 | 0 | 1 (4.76) | 21 | | Malignant other | 2 (50) | 2 (50) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | | Total | 377 | 41 | 33 | 1 | 8 | 460 |
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