Table 1. Risk factors associated with the development of SCC
1) Actinic Keratosis (AK) [4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19] |
2) Albinism [20] |
3) Arsenic exposure [21] |
4) Burn scars/chronic inflammation [8, 22, 23, 24] |
5) Chemical/occupational exposures [25, 26] |
6) Cigarette smoking [27] |
7) Ethnicity [10, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32] |
8) Familial predisposition [33, 34] |
9) Human Immunodeficiency Virus [35] |
10) Human Papillomavirus [36, 37] |
11) Lymphoproliferative disorders [4, 38, 39] |
12) Organ transplantation/chronic immunosuppression [40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45] |
13) Prior skin cancers [46] |
14) Radiation exposure [25, 40, 47, 48] |
15) Selenium supplementation [49] |
16) Sun (UVA/UVB) exposure [4, 22, 29, 50, 51, 52] |
17) Xeroderma Pigmentosum [53] |