Does Screening for Skin Cancer Result in Melanoma Overdiagnosis?

Source: Medscape, January 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, cancer screening in the US came to an abrupt halt.

That experience, coupled with the financial fallout of the pandemic, has led some doctors to reassess business as usual.

In particular, a trio has taken aim at skin cancer screening — arguing that it should stop — in a ‘sounding board’ commentary published online January 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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