Table 2. Comparison of reported cancer incidence among albinos.
Authors | Opara et al [2] | Asuquo et al [30] | Gilyoma et al (2012) | Kiprono et al [18] | Emadi et al [17] |
Awe and Azeke [14] | Present study |
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Study design(total number of participant) | Retrospective Hospital based (20) |
Retrospective Hospital based (9) |
Retrospective Hospital based 64 |
Retrospective Hospital based (86) |
Retrospective Hospital based 151 |
Retrospective Hospital based (22) |
Cross sectional Community based (90) |
SCC | 84.2% | 6(42.8%) | 75% | 53.7% | 5.29 | 68.2% | 15% |
BCC | 13.2% | 7(50%) | 23.4% | 45.6% | 7.94 | 22.7% | 37.9% |
Melanoma | - | 1(7.1%) | 1.6% | 0.7% | - | 9.1% | - |
Basosquamous carcinoma | 2.6% | - | - | - | - | - | 12% |
Collision tumor | - | - | - | - | 3.4% |