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Risk factors

• UV radiation • X-ray radiation • Chemical factors such as arsenic and polycyclic hydrocarbons • Immunosuppression (including allogeneic organ transplantation, therapy of immune-mediated and oncologic diseases and HIV infection)(HPV) • Genetic syndromes such as albinism, xeroderma pigmentosum and nevoid BCC syndrome • Fair skin type, older age and male

sex, are key individual factors associated with risk for NMSC

G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2017;152(3):286-294.