With advancements in genetics, biomedical engineering, dermatology, life sciences, oncology and many other fields of study, treatments for cancer, and particularly skin cancer, is still limited. Research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of skin cancer is being done and, especially for patients in the later stages of skin cancer, clinical trials are a boon, to find that one drug or vaccine, or a combination of therapies that would alleviate the symptoms or side effects of the skin cancer treatment procedures.

Amongst the disease that has plagued the Earth, a majority of them have been eradicated. And, this we owe to the discoveries in medical science. However, there are diseases that still haunt us, since no permanent cure has been found for the same. Cancer is one such disease that cannot be completely cured.