Sociodemographic, clinical and therapeutic profile of patients with neoplastic wounds

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Débora Thaise Freires de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Macêdo, Elton de Lima, Agra, Glenda, Andrade, Fábia Letícia Martins de, Formiga, Nilton Soares, Costa, Marta Miriam Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/556

The study aims to describe the sociodemographic, clinical and therapeutic profile of patients with neoplasticwounds treated at a referral hospital in Campina Grande-PB. This is a retrospective and descriptive documentarystudy with a quantitative approach, in which secondary data were used - sociodemographic, clinical andtherapeutic - extracted from medical records of patients with neoplastic wounds, between January 2009 andDecember 2015. The sample consisted of 852 medical records, of which 447 were women (53%), aged 60 yearsor older (58.2%), married (28.6%), and had no schooling (28.5% %), Women farmers (23.9%) and retirees (36.3%).The majority (50.6%) were diagnosed with skin cancer; the lesions presented pain (9.6%), bleeding (3.9%), odor(2.5%), exudate (2.0%) and Signs of infection (1.1%). Regarding the therapeutic modality, the majority (50.7%) ofthe patients underwent biopsy, followed by radiotherapy (42.2%). It concluded that it is necessary to implementpublic policies regarding the prevention of skin, mouth and breast cancers, in order to reduce the risk of becomingill; health education for these patients, as well as to reduce local and systemic complications, such as neoplasticlesions; and to create effective strategies for the registration of the patient's complete sociodemographic, clinicaland therapeutic information in electronic or conventional medical records by health professionals.Keywords: Cutaneous Neoplasms; Oncology; Nursing Care.