Recent advancements in skin cancer treatment: a critical review

• Published in: Exploration of Medicine
• Main Author: Goyal R.; Husain S.; Wilson K.; Chopra H.; Pahwa R.; Loganathan M.; Sharma R.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Published: Open Exploration Publishing Inc 2023
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85186324881&doi=10.37349%2femed.2023.00178&partnerID=40&md5=a480a298714ea3349652bd7c6787b256

The prevalence of skin cancer has increased hastily in the recent decade for both kinds of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Skin cancers mostly encompass keratinocyte cancers: cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma. This review discusses the recent advancements in the treatment of skin cancer. In addition to chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and photodynamic therapy (PDT), there are several other therapies for skin cancer. Additionally, PDT use in combination with chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, and surgery is being actively investigated. This review will specifically address the pathophysiology of skin cancer, diagnostic approaches, and current therapies used in the topical treatment of skin cancers and introduce emerging treatment using nanotechnology that may be beneficial for these indications. © The Author(s) 2023. This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.