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); 2^nd 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

• Skin Cancer Detection Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques; Mahalle, Parikshit N; 2026 (CRC Press LLC) – available online as an Open Access e-book

• Fast Facts: Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma; Haun, Paul L; Scarisbrick, Julia J; 2025; (S. Karger AG); 2^nd edition – only available as a Keele e-book

• Latest Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Skin Cancer; (MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) – available as online as an Open Access e-book

• The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear; Creed, Fabiola; 2025; (Bloomsbury Academic) – available online as an Open Access e-book

• Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Cancer; Lallas, Aimilios; 2023; (MDPI) – available online as an Open Access e-book

• Diagnostic dermoscopy: the illustrated guide; Bowling, Jonathan; 2022; (Wiley Blackwell); 2^nd edition.

JOURNALS   

• Journal of dermato-oncology; (Taylor & Francis) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2025 onwards

• 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

• Skin health and disease; British Association of Dermatologists, issuing body; (Oxford University Press) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 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

• “Nurse‐Led Models of Service Delivery for Skin Cancer Detection: A Systematic Review”; Kattach, Leila; Singleton, Heidiet al; Journal of advanced nursing, 2025-12, Vol.81 (12), p.8432-8456

• “Skin Cancer Predisposition Genes, Full-Body Skin Examinations, Familial Disclosure, and Genetic Testing Among High-Risk Individuals”; Freeman, Jincong Q; Matsui, Yu; et al; International journal of dermatology, 2025-12.

• “Radiotherapy—A Renaissance for Skin Cancer”; Sinclair, Robert; Jagavkar, Raj; et al; Australasian journal of dermatology, 2025-12, Vol.66 (8), p.e501-e510

• “Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy Combined With Skin Impedance for Detection of Skin Cancer in Primary Care”; Dragka, Maria Fragkou; Löfstedt, Tommy; Falk, Magnus; Skin research and technology, 2026-03, Vol.32 (3), p.e70344-n/a

• “Amplified Skin Cancer Risk in HPV‐Positive Immunosuppressed Patients: A Multicenter Real‐World Cohort Study”; Alam, Zaryab; Nguyen, Kevin T; et al; International journal of dermatology, 2026-04, Vol.65 (4), p.857-859

• “Ethnicity and the epidemiology of skin cancer incidence: a national retrospective population-based study in England, 2013–20”; Ahmed, Shehnaz; van Bodegraven, Birgitta; et al; British journal of dermatology, 2026-02, Vol.194 (2), p.273-282

• “Mobile health apps for skin cancer triage in the general population: a qualitative study on healthcare providers’ perspectives”; Sangers, Tobias E; Wakkee, Marlies; BMC cancer, 2025, Vol.25 (1), p.851-8, Article 851

• “‘It's Skin Cancer’… a Rollercoaster of a Journey for Teenagers, Young People and Their Significant Other”; Mcinally, W; Hainsworth, E; et al; Journal of advanced nursing, 2026, Vol.82 (2), p.1541-1554.

• “Advancing skin cancer detection through deep learning and fusion of patient metadata and skin lesion images.”; Islam, S; Wishart, GC; Walls, J; et al.; Scientific Reports, 2026, Vol. 16 (1), p.1968-15.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

• NHS website:
• Melanoma skin cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/melanoma-skin-cancer/
• Non-melanoma skin cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/non-melanoma-skin-cancer/

• Charities / Further information:
• Macmillan Cancer Support - https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/skin-cancer
• Skin Cancer UK Charity - https://www.skcin.org/

• ClinicalKey Patient Information Leaflets [Only available to NHS staff with Open Athens login]:
• Skin Cancer in Adults: Lowering Your Risk - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_9ec70169-22ee-4ebb-9328-d7b4d6e3ab0e

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/.