High Risk Melanoma Patients Can Benefit from Routine Screening and Education

Source: docwirenews, April 2021

Patients at high risk of melanoma who undergo routine skin cancer screening and education are more likely to be diagnosed with earlier stage melanomas, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

To conduct this study, researchers evaluated data from the NCI Familial Melanoma Study. Subsequently, they assessed the success of the study by compared differences in melanoma thickness and tumor stage between participants diagnosed with melanoma before and following enrollment.

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