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The main mechanisms are cellular senescence, telomere attrition, gene expression changes, metabolic dysregulations, oxidative stress and epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation. All these networks can harbor the initiation of age-related diseases, skin cancer included. The studies published in the last years linking ageing and skin cancers focus on basal and squamous carcinomas, melanomas and Merkel cell carcinomas. Our review will focus on skin melanomas as one of the aggressive skin cancers along with Merkel cell carcinomas. Several long-term studies conducted on large populations have shown that in elderly individuals melanoma related to photo-exposure has doubled in the last decade. The clinic-pathological pattern of skin melanomas is different in aged patients and is guided also by immune-related mechanisms. Besides sun exposure, metabolic deregulations and obesity can be risk factors in melanomas. Controversial results were published on obesity risk in melanomas; however, the adipose tissue favors increased cytokines and growth factors production contributing to melanoma aggressiveness. Moreover, immunotherapy that is not offered in geriatric patients as often as in young ones has proven to be as efficient as in younger ones, although the aged-related co-morbidities can impede the immunotherapy choice. Without being exhaustive, our review has synthesized current research and critically assessed the links between aging as a normal physiological process to the initiation and propagation of skin cancers, focusing on cutaneous melanoma. 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