The information in the skin cancer information centre is based on the Cancerbackup booklet, Understanding skin cancer, which has been produced in accordance with the following sources and guidelines:

• Improving Outcomes for People With Skin Cancer Including Melanoma. Cancer Service Guidance. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). February 2006.
• Photodynamic Therapy for Non-melanoma Skin Tumours (including premalignant and primary non-metastatic skin lesions). NICE. February 2006.
• Multiprofessional Guidelines for the Management of the Patient With Primary Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma. British Association of Dermatologists. 2002.
• The Oxford Textbook of Oncology. Eds: Robert Souhami, Ian Tannock, Peter Hohenberger and Jean-Claude Horiot. Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Skin cancer section of Cancer Research UK website: www.cancerhelp.org.uk

Guidelines are constantly being updated and those noted above may have been revised since the booklet was produced. You can access up-to-date guidelines in the health professionals section of the website.