Risk of Skin Cancer: Non-Melanoma/Melanoma
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 882
Special Issue Editor
Interests: epidemiology; pathogenesis; risk factors; prevention; diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers (melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancers); chronic inflammatory skin diseases (psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa)
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Dear Colleagues,
Risk factors of skin cancer include a number of individual and environmental factors. Aside from UV exposure, which may be considered the most important risk factor, viral infection (HPV), smoking, exposure to coal, arsenic compounds, and X-rays represent important environmental factors. Immunosuppression also increases the risk of skin cancer significantly (not only in organ-transplant recipients but also in patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs due to immunopathological conditions). In addition, several patient-related individual factors, like age, pigmentation, genetic predisposition, multiple nevi, or scars from disease and burns, may predispose patients to skin cancer development. Taking into account demographic development, climate change, changed leisure activities, and increased application of immunomodulatory therapies, the exposure to skin cancer risk factors will increase in the future, and accordingly, skin cancer incidence is also likely to increase. Thus, knowledge of risk factors and measures to avoid exposure to them play a key role in strategies to prevent skin cancer. In this context, raising awareness about the risk of skin cancer represents a major challenge, requiring a multidisciplinary approach, including various health professionals.
I am pleased to invite you to submit original research studies or reviews to this Special Issue addressing risk factors of skin cancers, but also studies targeting these risk factors in order to prevent skin cancer development. Research areas may include all types of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer, including studies on epidemiology, precancerous lesions, oncogenic mechanisms, or diagnostic approaches that may serve as starting points for strategies for prevention of skin cancer.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Eggert Stockfleth
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- melanoma
- non-melanoma skin cancer
- keratinocyte cancer
- Merkel cell carcinoma
- UV exposure
- immunosuppression
- skin cancer prevention
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