Meet the editor

Dr Paweł Pietkiewicz is a board-certified dermatovenereologist (UEMS-EBDV). He earned his MD (2009) and summa cum laude PhD (2016) from Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland, where he worked as a lecturer and a researcher. He is a recipient of Michael Hornstein Memorial EADV Scholarship (2015), SDF Grant (2015), Euroderm Excellence Grant (2015), SDS Grant (2017), BSPD Grant (2018), EADO Fellow-

ship (2018) Sapienza University of Rome Fellowship (2018), and Eli Lilly Grant (2019). Dr Pietkiewicz was a winner of the Dermoscopy Excellence Challenge (2018) and AI Challenges (FotoFinder 2018, 2019; Canfield's DEXI - 2019). He has authored and co-authored over 100 manuscripts in dermatology and oncology. In 2018 he founded Polish Dermatoscopy Group for training medical specialists in skin cancer screening.

Contents

**Section 1**

B-Raf-Mutated Melanoma

*and Mildred Acevedo-Duncan*

*by Pandurangan Ramaraj*

Subungual Melanoma

*by Mariana Catalina De Anda Juárez*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface III**

The Genetics and Epigenetics in Regulation of Melanoma Progression **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 43**

Special Melanoma Scenarios **53**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 67**

Mathematic Models for Tumor Detection **75**

**Chapter 6 77**

*by Sarah E. Fenton, Jeffrey A. Sosman and Sunandana Chandra*

Hormonal Regulation of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Brief Review of

*by Ignatko Irina Vladimirovna and Strizhakov Alexander Nikolaevich*

2D Fourier Fractal Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography

*by Wei Gao, Bingjiang Lin, Valery P. Zakharov and Oleg O. Myakinin*

Images of Basal Cell Carcinomas and Melanomas

Atypical Protein Kinase Cs in Melanoma Progression *by Wishrawana S. Ratnayake, Christopher A. Apostolatos* 

In Vivo and In Vitro Studies and Its Clinical Implication

Melanoma and Pregnancy: Risks, Current, and Forecast
