OBJECTIVES: To determine which consultations were not directly related to the patient's tumor at the Centro Cancerológico del Caribe - Cecac Ltda.

METHODS: 27,903 consultations corresponding to 7,726 patients attended during the year 2018 were studied. The database was received in Excel, from the systems department, and was processed in SPSS V22. Keeping the identification variables fixed (ID, sex, age, name and surname), it was possible to quantify the number of consultations for each patient, as well as the main diagnoses of each consultation, and after filtering the diagnoses and classifying them into: those with codes C or D (ICD10) related to benign, malignant and indeterminate tumors and those that began with codes other than these letters, 5067 consultations of the second group (not C or D) corresponding to 2472 patients were found.

RESULTS: 18.7% of the total (n=27,093) of attentions were not directly related to the tumor. The four main consultations not related to tumors were (n=5,066): anemia (26.21%), other signs and symptoms related to the breast (12.69%), adenomegaly (2.67%), vaginitis, vulvitis and vulvovaginitis in infectious and parasitic diseases (2.19%).

CONCLUSIONS: Almost one fifth of the visits were not directly related to the main diagnosis of the patient (tumor). Anemia was the main diagnosis, and it is necessary to inquire about the type of anemia and with what type of topographies and morphologies it is most related.