Skin Cancer reviews
There are currently no ‘priority setting partnerships’ working to identify the priority questions for
these conditions. The following are published Cochrane Skin reviews or protocols or protocols in
preparation.
Type of Cochrane review
Intervention reviews
Actinic keratoses
BCC
Bowen’s disease
Non-metastatic SCC
Mycosis fungoides
Melanoma in situ including lentigo
maligna
Early cutaneous melanoma
Cutaneous melanoma
Primary cutaneous melanoma
Metastatic cutaneous melanoma
Prevention reviews
Educational programmes
In high-risk groups not receiving
immunosuppressive therapy
Statins & fibrates
In organ transplant recipients
NMSC in in organ transplant
recipients
Sunscreens and barrier methods
Full title
Interventions for actinic keratoses (Rev#34)
Interventions for basal cell carcinoma of the skin (Rev#26)
Interventions for cutaneous Bowen's disease (Rev#107)
Interventions for non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of
the skin (Rev#74)
Interventions for mycosis fungoides (Rev#129)
Interventions for melanoma in situ, including lentigo maligna
(Rev#86)
Sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by lymph node
dissection for early cutaneous melanoma (Rev#126)
Interferon alpha for the adjuvant treatment of cutaneous
melanoma (Rev#62)
Surgical excision margins for primary cutaneous melanoma
(Rev#35)
Systemic treatments for metastatic cutaneous melanoma
(Rev#03)
Chemoimmunotherapy versus chemotherapy for metastatic
malignant melanoma (Rev#59)
Educational programmes for primary prevention of skin
cancer (Rev#52)
Interventions for preventing non-melanoma cancer in highrisk groups not receiving immunosuppressive therapy (no
Rev# number yet)
Statins and fibrates for preventing melanoma (Rev#37)
Interventions for preventing non-melanoma skin cancers in
organ transplant recipients (Rev#39)
Interventions for preventing non-melanoma skin cancers in
organ transplant recipients
Sunscreen and barrier methods for preventing nonmelanoma skin cancer in the general population (Rev#157)
Diagnostic reviews
A suite of Diagnostic Test Accuracy reviews will be produced
in due course as a result of a Programme Grant- we will post
the titles here as soon as we can
Adverse Effects of treatments
Skin reactions associated with
cancer treatment
Interventions for skin reactions associated with targeted
anticancer treatments (Rev#134)