Do you think melanoma is equal to skin cancer? A selection of BMC studies

Title: Skin Cancer Awareness Month: Highlighting our open access skin cancer research
Aoife Buckley
Published: 2019/05/06
paper Label: Applied Cancer Research, Biomarker Research, BMC Cancer, Cancer, CancerImaging, Clinical Epigenetics, Clinical Proteomics, Diagnostic Pathology, Test Hematology and Oncology, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, Journal of Research and Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Hematology and Oncology, Lipids in Health and Disease Molecular Cytogenetics, Molecular Medicine, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, Radiation Oncology, Skin cancer
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May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and to mark this theme and help raise awareness of skin cancer, our editors have compiled a series of articles published in many open-access oncology journals published under BMC to showcase some of the latest research in the field. Welcome
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as a global health issue is critical to the ongoing study of skin cancer. Test your knowledge of skin cancer and related research with this quiz below. Don't forget to share your results and work with your colleagues to raise awareness of skin cancer.
may be the start of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, skin cancer and melanoma are widely mistakenly believed to be the same thing, but melanoma is only a skin cancer. It is also the deadliest form of skin cancer and currently ranks 19th among the world's most common cancers, although the situation is different from country to country.
, for example, it is the fifth most common cancer in the UK and the third most common cancer in Australia. Although everyone is at risk of melanoma, the difference in these countries is largely due to the much higher risk of melanoma in people with light skin.
incidence of melanoma also varies by sex, as men are at higher risk of developing the disease and dying from it. Reasons for this difference include the fact that men are more likely than women to work outdoors, and that women are more likely than men to use moisturizers/cosmetics with high sun protection.
other types of skin cancer are substrate cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. These are very common and highly treatable. Objectively speaking, it is estimated that more people are diagnosed with skin cancer (including all types) each year in the United States than all other types of cancer combined.
as a global health issue, it is of paramount importance to continue to study skin cancer, particularly in the areas of risk assessment and diagnosis, cellular pathogenes, treatment and biomarkers.
articles in this article were carefully compiled by editors of BMC's Journal of Oncology and include some of the latest research in the field.(Source: Science.com)