Tumorogenesis and skin tumours in the elderly

Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete
T WildC C Zouboulis

Abstract

More than 1.5 million people were diagnosed with skin cancer in 2012 in Germany-of which 318,000 were malignant melanoma. The number of malignant skin tumours has increased by 60% since 2005. Epithelial skin cancers are even more common. Since 2012, 1.3 million diagnoses have been documented. This incidence represents an increase of 79% within 7 years. The number of skin cancer patients treated in German hospitals has also increased. In 2014, 99,613 patients were treated as inpatients with the diagnosis of skin cancer; in 2000 there were 57,147 patients. This was the largest growth rate among all cancer treatments in hospitalised patients. The continuously changing age pyramid leads to an expected further growth of the incidence of skin tumours. In parallel the development of molecular knowledge in tumorigenesis is also rapid. A series of cell-specific mutations have been described in recent years for various skin tumours. Mutations are found mainly in genes engaging their translation products at key positions in regulatory cell metabolism or cell division. These include oncogenes, which have greatly increased activity due to targeted mutations or tumor suppressor genes and act under physiological conditions as negative regulat...Continue Reading

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