GPs essential to early diagnosis and treatment of melanoma
Source: RACGP, September 2024
As Australian patients begin to spend more time in the sun, the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) has urged patients to organise a skin check with their GP to ensure dangerous skin cancers are detected and treated early.
The latest edition of the Australian Journal of General Practice (AJGP) focuses on skin cancer, including articles on managing patients with newer treatments and exploring the risk of overdiagnosis versus the benefit of earlier detection.
Medical oncologist Associate Professor Alexander Menzies and co-authors discussed how collaboration between GPs and oncologists and newer drug therapies has led to earlier treatment and reduced recurrence of melanoma after surgery, and provided GPs with a guide to recognising and managing adverse events from therapies.