Call for urgent melanoma screening
Source: Cosmos Magazine, July 2024
Australia must implement a national melanoma screening program like those in place for bowel and breast cancer say Queensland health researchers.
This follows publication by a team from Southern Cross University (SCU) on the Gold Coast of a study that found only 21.7% of participants were able to correctly self-identify malignant melanomas, either in situ (on the surface) or invasive (below the skin), as lesions of concern.
The findings are published in the journal Peer J.