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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020

Current and Future Trends in Molecular Biomarkers for Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Predictive Purposes in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer.

Taxiarchis Konstantinos Nikolouzakis, Luca Falzone, Konstantinos Lasithiotakis, Sabine Krüger-Krasagakis, Alexandra Kalogeraki, Maria Sifaki, Demetrios A Spandidos, Emmanuel Chrysos, Aristidis Tsatsakis, John Tsiaoussis

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Taxiarchis Konstantinos NikolouzakisLaboratory of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Crete, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Luca FalzoneEpidemiology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori 'Fondazione G. Pascale', I-80131 Naples, Italy.
Konstantinos LasithiotakisDepartment of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Sabine Krüger-KrasagakisDermatology Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Alexandra KalogerakiDepartment of Pathology-Cytopathology, Medical School, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Maria SifakiCentre of Toxicology Science and Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Demetrios A SpandidosLaboratory of Clinical Virology, Medical School, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Emmanuel ChrysosDepartment of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Aristidis TsatsakisCentre of Toxicology Science and Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3824-2462
John TsiaoussisLaboratory of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Crete, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cancer represents the most common type of cancer among Caucasians and presents in two main forms: melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC). NMSC is an umbrella term, under which basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) are found along with the pre-neoplastic lesions, Bowen disease (BD) and actinic keratosis (AK). Due to the mild nature of the majority of NMSC cases, research regarding their biology has attracted much less attention. Nonetheless, NMSC can bear unfavorable characteristics for the patient, such as invasiveness, local recurrence and distant metastases. In addition, late diagnosis is relatively common for a number of cases of NMSC due to the inability to recognize such cases. Recognizing the need for clinically and economically efficient modes of diagnosis, staging, and prognosis, the present review discusses the main etiological and pathological features of NMSC as well as the new and promising molecular biomarkers available including telomere length (TL), telomerase activity (TA), CpG island methylation (CIM), histone methylation and acetylation, microRNAs (miRNAs), and micronuclei frequency (MNf). The evaluation of all these aspects is important for the correct management of NMSC; therefore, the current review aims to assist future studies interested in exploring the diagnostic and prognostic potential of molecular biomarkers for these entities.

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basal cell carcinomaepigeneticsMerkel cell carcinomamiRNAnon-melanoma skin cancersquamous cell carcinomatelomerasetelomeres

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PMCPMC7564050

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