The "Cutaneous Cancers: An Interdisciplinary Approach" is the fifteenth volume of the "Interdisciplinary Cancer Research" series, publishes comprehensive volume on diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous cancers. The volume starts with a general chapter on interdisciplinary approach in cutaneous cancers. Epigenomic markers in dermato-oncology is discussed in the next chapter. Macrophage-mediated cancer immunology and the role of inflammatory cells in skin cancer genesis are explained in subsequent chapters. Pathophysiology and treatment of specific cutaneous cancers, including melanoma, are discussed in the following chapters. This is the main concept of Cancer Immunology Project (CIP), which is a part of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). This interdisciplinary book will be of special value for dermatologists and oncologists who wish to have an update on diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous cancers.

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Professor Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree (MD) from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and subsequently obtained an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also spent a short-term fellowship of Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Professor Rezaei is now the Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of Research and Technologies, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Head of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the Founder of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Prof. Rezaei has already been the Director of more than two hundred research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Prof. Rezaei is the editor, editorial assistant, or editorial board member of more than fifty international journals. He has edited more than one hundred international books, has presented more than a thousand lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 1,500 scientific papers in the international journals.