Skin Cancer: Epidemiology, Prevention and Quality of Life

Dear Colleagues,

Cutaneous malignancy is the most common human cancer. Its incidence has been steadily increasing over the past four decades, becoming a public health burden in terms of morbidity and cost. This rising trend is associated with changing environmental exposures and the increased longevity of the general and the immunosuppressed population.

This Special Issue will focus on the epidemiology, prevention, and impairment of quality of life due to skin cancer, primarily by addressing the following issues:

• Differential features of skin cancer in special groups: the elderly, children, the immunosuppressed and pregnancy.
• The impact of new therapies for skin cancer on quality of life, specifically the differences in the cosmetic and functional outcome of patients treated with Mohs micrographic surgery compared to conventional surgery.
• The prevention and follow-up of skin tumours in genodermatoses with risk of malignancy.
• The risk and prevention of skin cancer in dermatological therapies.
• The prevention of new melanomas in patients with melanoma.

We warmly welcome submissions, including original papers and systematic reviews.

Dr. Sabela Paradela
Guest Editor

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