Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the study patients.

Variable	Categories-Percentages
Sex	Female (40%, Ν = 40) Male (60%, Ν = 60)
BMI	Underweight (8%, Ν = 8) Normal (55%, Ν = 55) Overweight (30%, Ν = 30) Obese (7%, Ν = 7)
Skin disease category	Skin cancer (51%, Ν = 51) SCC (25%, Ν = 25) BCC (26%, Ν = 26) Precancerous lesion Actinic keratosis (22%, Ν = 22) Control-benign lesions (27%, Ν = 27)
Time of diagnosis	Recently diagnosed NMSC patients (22%, Ν = 22) Chronic NMSC patients (29%, Ν = 29) Recently diagnosed non-NMSC lesion patients (23%, Ν = 23) Chronic non-NMSC lesion patients (26%, Ν = 26)
Site of lesion	Face (56.2%, Ν = 41) Non facial lesions (43.8%, Ν = 32)
Previously diagnosed with skin cancer	No (73.6%, Ν = 53) Yes (26.4%, Ν = 19)
Fitzpatrick Classification	Type 2 (62.6%, Ν = 62) Type 3 (36.4%, Ν = 36) Type 4 (1%, Ν = 1)