Leila Alem 
1 
, Maryam Ghasemi 
2 
, Sanam Saeifar 
3 
, Zahra Mojtahedi 
4 
, Maryam Alem 
1*  1
1 Nickan Research Institute, Isfahan, Iran
2 Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
3 Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt Macromolecular Complexes (CEF-MC), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
4 School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
        
	
            
            Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
  Several investigations showed/indicated that individuals with SLE are prone to the overall malignancies.  
  Please cite this paper as: ALem L, Ghasemi M, Saeifar S, Mojtahedi Z, ALem M. Cancer in systemic  lupus erythematosus; a letter to the editor on current concepts. J Nephropathol. 2023;12(4):e21514.  DOI: 10.34172/jnp.2023.21514.