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Editor-in-Chief

Mr Masha Singh, FRCS(Plast) — Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon specialising in cutaneous malignancy. He founded and edits skinoncology.net and leads its surgical and reconstructive content. Full profile →

Specialty: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, sub-specialising in skin oncology and reconstruction.
Experience: Nearly 20 years' NHS practice across diagnosis, surgical treatment and reconstruction of cutaneous malignancy — melanoma, BCC, cSCC, Merkel cell carcinoma, cutaneous sarcomas and rare adnexal tumours.
Practice setting: UK NHS multidisciplinary skin cancer team. Active surgical caseload spanning lesion-directed treatment, complex local and free-flap reconstruction, and post-treatment surveillance.
Registration: GMC 6141386 — registered with a licence to practise; on the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery.

Conflicts of interest

No third-party commercial sponsorship, advisory-board honoraria or industry support relates to skinoncology.net content. The Editor-in-Chief is the creator of Dermafocal and has a financial interest in Adept Surgical Ltd; this separate author-owned product interest is declared in full on the funding page.

How the site is written and reviewed

Articles are authored by practising UK clinicians, led by the Editor-in-Chief, and reviewed within their specialty by the editorial board — plastic surgery, dermatology, pathology and radiology, with further specialties being added. Independent specialty review is being applied progressively across the site, beginning with the highest-stakes content.

Subject areas closest to the authors' daily practice (skin cancer surgery, margins, reconstruction, multidisciplinary workflow) are the most developed.
Areas that depend on another specialty — dermatopathology, imaging, medical oncology — are written closely against current UK national guidance and reviewed by the relevant board member as that review is completed.
Where evidence is contested, evolving or low quality, that is stated explicitly in the article.
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