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Skin Cancer Awareness Month - May 2026

 As we head towards summer it is important to look after your skin and protect it from the sun.  Skin Cancer Awareness Month takes place every May to highlight the risks associated with exposure to ultraviolent light & to raise awareness about the importance of sun protection.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS 
  • Skin Cancer; Cazzato, Gerardo; 2025; (IntechOpen) – available online as an Open Access e-book
  • Fast Facts: Skin Cancer; Agnew, Karen L; Bunker, Chris; Arron, Sarah T; 2013; (Health Press); 2nd edition – only available as a Keele e-book
  • ABC of Skin Cancer; Rajpar, Sajjad; Marsden, Jerry R; 2008; (BMJ Books) – available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book

JOURNALS   

  • EJC skin cancer; European Journal of Cancer; Elsevier – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2023 onwards
  • Dermato; (MDPI) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 onwards
  • Journal of skin cancer; (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards
  • JMIR dermatology; (JMIR Publications Inc) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.  

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