Patient Activated Education Effective as Surveillance for Skin Cancer in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Source: Oncology Nurse Advisor, January 2023
Childhood cancer survivors who were treated with radiation are at a 30-fold increased risk for developing basal cell carcinoma and a 2.5- to 5-fold increased risk for developing melanoma 2 decades after treatment exposure. Despite the increased risk and incidence of skin cancer in this population, improving adherence to skin cancer screening recommendations has been challenging.
Researchers conducted a randomized controlled comparative effectiveness trial to evaluate various methods for improving early detection of skin cancer among childhood cancer survivors. The results were published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Participants were recruited from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), with 728 patients who had been treated with radiotherapy as children were enrolled and randomly assigned 1:1:1 to 3 groups:
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