Özet:

Hematological malignities represent a heterogeneous group of tumors and, according to cancer statistics, it occurs increasing frequency with age. As the world’s population ages, the number of malignant geriatric phenomena also increases rapidly. However, the literature from our country on the frequency of these diseases in the older age group is quite limited. In this study, it was intended to study the distribution of hematological malignities in the geriatric group of patients in our center by comparison with young adults. Our tool and method study is retrospective and includes adult events of 18 years and over who have been traced with hematological malignity diagnosis in our center between January 1, 2018 and November 1, 2020. All the data are collected from the electronic database that is used for patient tracking in our center, and the age, gender and subgroup of diagnosis are recorded for the cases included. The data obtained was analyzed by grouping according to age and diagnosis subgroups. The results included a total of 1733 (708 women, 1025 men) facts in the analysis. When grouped by age, 34.62 percent of the incidents are geriatric patients aged 65 years and older. The most frequently diagnosed in these patients was non-hodgkin lymphoma (29.66) and the second place was chronic lymphosite lymphoma (22.50) and the third place was multiple myelom (21.16%). Young adults aged 18-64 who were involved in the study accounted for 65.37% of the working population. The most commonly diagnosed hematological malignity in adolescents is non-hodgkin lymphoma (33.45) while the second is multiple myeloma (11.83) and the third is chronic myeloid leukemia (10.94). When compared the groups in terms of the distribution of hematological malignities, there was a statistically significant difference between young adults and elderly (p<0,001). In our study, the distribution of hematological malignities in geriatric patients was studied and the distribution was different from young adults. It is believed that our findings will lead to wider scale research that will represent our country in the future.

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