Background: The elderly cancers are worldwide a major public health issue. Their exact incidence\nis unknown in Togo. The purpose of this study was to describe epidemiological and histological\ndata of cancers in the elderly in Togo. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional and descriptive\nstudy of cases of elderly cancers diagnosed at the laboratory of pathology of the university\nteaching hospital of Lom�© from 1995 to 2014 (20 years). Cases of examination on samples of\nthe elderly (biopsy, excision, surgical specimens) were collected from the data records of that laboratory.\nResults: Overall, 792/5200 cases of elderly cancer were collected representing 15.2% of\nall cancers diagnosed in the laboratory. The annual incidence was 39.6 cases. Patient age ranged\nfrom 65 to 103 years old, with a mean of 68.5 �± 4 years old. The sex ratio (M/F) was 1.3. At pathological\nlevel, the study material included pieces (n=290 cases; 36.6%) and biopsies (n=502 cases;\n63.4%). Cancers located preferably in prostate in men (38%), and in women the most frequent\nlocations were cervix (16.2%) and breast (15.8%). We noticed four histological groups: carcinomas\n(n = 706 cases; 89.1%), sarcomas (n = 43 cases; 5.5%), lymphoma (n = 34 cases; 4.3%) and\nmelanoma (n = 9 cases; 1.1%). Carcinomas were dominated by adenocarcinomas (50.1%) and\nsquamous cell carcinomas (33.8%); Kaposiâ��s sarcoma (32.6%) was the most common histological\ntype in sarcomas. Conclusion: Our results showed that the elderly cancers were frequent in Togo,\nlocating mostly in uterus cervix and breast in female, and prostate in men. This study could help to\nadvocate the establishment of a cancer registry in Togo.
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