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DISCUSSION
From anatomic perspective we mean by anal canal, the segment between the dentate line tend the anal verge. Moreover, the surgical view considers the anal canal, as the area from the palpable anorectal ring to the peri-anal skin. This later definition is the most widely accepted in practice and the most preferred by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). Therefore, any tumour involving the anorectal junction is stated as a rectal cancer in this case, the topography epicentre is more than 2 cm proximal to dentate line. In addition to, anal cancer is defined if the epicentre is 2 cm or less from the dentate line. Taxonomically, tumours of the peri-anal skin are designated as perianal cancers and resemble biologically to other skin tumours [72,13,30]. This contrast is crucial since anal cancers are more aggressive than cancers of the peri-anal skin, furthermore its incidence is up to 5 times more common than that of anal margin lesions [12,13,16,30].
Consistently, anal cancer was regarded as a disease of older women, with onset in the 7th decade of life. This neoplastic entity used to be of a very rare occurrence. However, over the past decades its incidence has raised especially in women and in homosexual men. Additionally, for the past decade, its escalated incidence has redheaded the range of 2,2 % annually. Furthermore, this cancer represented 0,5 % of all cancers diagnosed in the USA [1,9,17-19]. Etiologically, the nowadays occurrence of anal cancer is more related to Human Papilloma Virus infection in 91 % so that the frequency of this malignancy is merged in younger people of both genders affected by this virus. Therefore, since the probability of developing this cancer is 120-fold when there is a pre-existing HPV ano-rectal infection, anal cancer in young people can be regarded as a sexually transmitted neoplastic disease which needs a prophylactic measure involving a sexual education in puberty and adolescent age groups as well as, a vaccination against this infectious agent. And the most oncogenic serotypes are HPV 16 and 18. thus, the biopsy is recommended once there is ano-rectal HPV infection especially when there is a coexistent HIV infection [2-8,14,26-28]. Results of peer-reviewed studies of anal cancer, including detection of HPVDNA, demonstrated that the prevalence of HPV16 and 18 in 72 % of patients, and includes screening for vaginal and cervical cancer and male external genitalia. Anal cancer has numerous risk factors apart from HPV such as a non-protected sexual life in term of multiple partners, anal receptive intercourse in both genders, history of vulvar or vaginal and cervical dysplasia or cancer, advanced age, smoking and immunosuppression related to different organs such as HIV infection or solid [15,16,20,22-25].
A study using data from the Danish Cancer Registry demonstrated that the probability of developing anal cancer after a diagnosis of cervical cancer or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was three to five times as high as the probability of developing stomach or colon cancer with a strong association between cervical cancer and anal cancer. Frisch et al. have found an association between anal cancer and lymphoma or leukaemia and raises a possible role of immunodeficiency in the development of anal cancer [29].
Regarding pathologic perspective, 85 % of anal cancers are of squamous type [21,29] but in us study the most prevalent histologic type was carcinoma in situ (Bowns disease) with 54% followed squamous cell carcinoma with 31 % and adenocarcinoma with 9 %, skin cancer (basal cell) 6%. There was no case of anal melanoma in our study.
CONCLUSION
Anal cancer remains a nosologic entity of rare occurrence even among different proctologic issues. Its incidence is nowadays increasing because of the epidemiologic profile of HIV infection in both genders, especially in young population. We suggest a good sexual education in adolescent population as well as vaccination against this etiological as well as a screening ano-rectal biopsy in women with history of vulvo-vaginal HPV infection or cancer and in general in high risk patients such as immunocompromised patients from different origins.
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