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The incidence of basal cell carcinoma in Croatia: an epidemiological study

To investigate the basal cell carcinoma incidence in Croatia in the 2003-2005 period. The data has been collected from the Department of Dermatology and Venereology Clinical Hospital Center and School of Medicine in Zagreb and from the National Cancer Registry. Age-specific incidence rate and age-standardized incidence rate were calculated on 100, 000 inhabitants in accordance with the latest population census in 2001 in Croatia and the world standard population. There were 7, 244 cases of basal cell carcinoma (3, 519 men and 3, 725 women) in Croatia in 2003-2005. The crude incidence rate for the Croatian population of 100, 000 was 54.9 for men and 53.9 for women. The age-standardized incidence rate (adjusted for the world standard population) was 33.6 for men and 24.5 for women, respectively. The head and the neck were the almost exclusive locations of BCC. The highest BCC incidence was recorded in Zadar County. The incidence of basal cell carcinoma in the Mediterranean and the continental counties in Croatia was high. Our results will serve as reference figures on studying the trend of basal cell carcinoma incidence in Croatia and Europe in the forthcoming years.

basal cell carcinoma; incidence; epidemiology; Croatia

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