%0 Journal Article
%T Psoriasis and skin cancer
%A Afzaal Ahmed Bin Jameel
%A Jia Li Xu
%A Li Yin
%A Ying Ying Hu
%A Zhi Qiang Yin
%J -
%D 2017
%X Psoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease that involves skin and joints. Many studies have reported psoriasis was frequently associated with a growing list of comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Psoriasis also may bring out a risk of skin cancer, which was possibly due to immune-suppressive drugs, ultraviolet phototherapy, habits of smoking and drinking, or the chronic inflammatory nature of the disease. Psoriatic patients are prone to suffer from non-melanoma skin cancer; however, they have a clearly lower possibility to suffer from melanoma
%K Psoriasis
%K Melanoma
%K Skin cancer.
%U https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/psoriasis-and-skin-cancer.html