[Cutaneous cancers in Togo]

A retrospective study was conducted during 20 years to determine the epidemiological features of skin cancer diagnosed in the pathology laboratory in Lome teaching hospital. During this period, 518 cases of theses affections were noted: 288 cases of carcinoma (56.6%); out of 288 carcinomas 254 were spinocellular carcinoma, which developed on 143 chronic phagedenic ulcer, the others cancer were: malignant melanoma 63 cases (12.3%), Kaposi's sarcoma 72 cases (13.9%), skin sarcoma 95 cases (18.3%). The results of this study shows that the spinocellular carcinoma were mostly the skin cancer in Black African, and confirm the particularity of malignant melanoma in Black subjects.