**Meet the editor**

After studying medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles completed in 1991 with the highest grade (La Plus Grande Distinction), Dr. Pierre Vereecken becomes Medical Officer and works in Germany in the framework of the Belgian Forces in Germany (1991-1995). During this period he takes six months as a United Nations peacekeeper Officer in the former Yugoslavia, particularly in Central Bosnia.

Back to Belgium, he specializes in both Dermatology (1999) and Oncology (2001), and manages to follow various additional training in Belgium and abroad, particularly in France and the United States, in Dermatology, Oncology, and Aesthetics. In 2008, Dr. Pierre Vereecken receives his PhD degree, the highest academic degree, after the presentation of a research work focused on the biology of melanoma, including the study of metastatic process and the role of galectins as a marker of tumor progression.

Head of Academic Services (CHU-Brugmann 2005-2009, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc 2010-2011), and ensuring a triple academic mission, namely clinical, teaching and research, Dr. Pierre Vereecken has always been attentive to offer his patients a quality medicine.

Dr. Pierre Vereecken is the author or coauthor of more then 100 national and international publications and editor or coauthor of more than 10 books. Member of numerous national and international scientific societies among which the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Today, Dr. Pierre Vereecken is deeply devoted to his patients, while maintaining scientific rigor, guaranteeing the best care. He provides different courses and presentations in various organizations (education, professional associations and regulatory authorities, ...). He works in the largest private hospital network in Belgium, the CHIREC and in private practice. Dr. Pierre Vereecken founded in 2012 Cliderm (Clinics in Dermatology), multifunctional structure dedicated to clinical dermatology and dermatological research and the European Institute for Dermatology Practice and Research (EIDPR).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Melanoma 27** Pierre Vereecken

**of the Art 67**

Chapter 5 **About Suncare Products 127**

C. Couteau and L. Coiffard

Chapter 7 **Skin Cancer Prevention Strategies 211**

Rohinton S. Tarapore

Chapter 1 **Incidence of Melanoma and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in the**

Małgorzata Juszko-Piekut, Aleksandra Moździerz, Zofia Kołosza, Magdalena Królikowska-Jerużalska, Paulina Wawro-Bielecka, Grażyna Kowalska-Ziomek, Dorota Olczyk and Jerzy Stojko

Zekayi Kutlubay, Burhan Engin, Server Serdaroğlu and Yalçın Tüzün

Paweł Pietkiewicz, Justyna Gornowicz-Porowska, Monika Bowszyc-

**Inhabitants of the Upper Silesia, Poland 1**

Chapter 2 **Serum Markers in Clinical Management of Malignant**

Chapter 4 **Current Management of Malignant Melanoma: State**

**Molecular and Clinical Aspects 159**

Dmochowska and Marian Dmochowski

Lisa Passantino, Max Costa and Mary Matsui

Chapter 8 **Photodynamic Therapy for Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer 233**

Cintia Teles de Andrade, Natalia Mayumi Inada, Dora Patricia Ramirez, Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato and Cristina Kurachi

Chapter 3 **An Overview of Important Genetic Aspects in Melanoma 43**

Chapter 6 **Malignancy in Relation to Autoimmune Blistering Dermatoses:**
