Wild, T., Altenburg, A., Karagiannidis, I., Mauch, C. and Zouboulis, C. C. (2016). Tumorogenesis and skin tumours in the elderly. Hautarzt, 67 (2). S. 132 - 140. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1432-1173

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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 regulators that are inactivated by mutations. These findings have led to the development of a series of new promising compounds for the treatment of skin tumours.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Wild, T.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Altenburg, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Karagiannidis, I.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Mauch, C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Zouboulis, C. C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-285612
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-015-3759-x
Journal or Publication Title: Hautarzt
Volume: 67
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 132 - 140
Date: 2016
Publisher: SPRINGER
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1432-1173
Language: German
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
MICROCYSTIC ADNEXAL CARCINOMA; CANCERMultiple languages
DermatologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28561

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