
Revising Skin Cancers by Means of Epigenetic Markers
Skin neoplasms represent a group of cutaneous disorders comprising primarily basal cell carcinoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma and cutaneous lymphoma. Until the last few years, not all skin cancers subtypes have been studied in an epigenetic milieu. Among skin
cancer subtypes, melanoma is the most discussed from the epigenetic point of view due to its aggressiveness and its proven resistance to radiotherapy procedures. Epigenetic deregulations comprise reversible modifications of the nuclear material, for instance aberrant methylation of DNA, posttranslational
modifications of histones and recently considered, microRNAs profiles. A relevant number of patents and clinical trials regarding the use of epigenetic drugs alone or in combination with classical procedures have been developed especially for melanoma treatment. Due to their particular aggressive
character, cutaneous lymphomas or even the rare Merkel cell carcinoma has been started to be intensively investigated upon epigenetic context, leading also to develop new therapy options and novel patents for their treatment.
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Keywords: Cutaneous lymphomas; Epigenetic drugs; Merkel cell carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma; clinical trials; lymphoma; melanoma; patents; skin cancers; tumorigenesis
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: May 1, 2012
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