Sun Bus Helps Bust Melanoma Misconceptions, Provide Screenings

Source: Dermatology Times, May 2022

Mobile screening and education initiatives can help bridge gaps in both patient knowledge and access to care.

Run by the Colorado Melanoma Foundation (CMF), the Sun Bus has provided more than 3500 free skin-cancer screenings throughout the Central and Southwestern United States to date. Along the way, providers are learning perhaps as much about melanoma misconceptions as the project teaches patients about skin cancer.

“There are people out there who believe that sunscreen gives them cancer,” said Neil Box, MD, CMF president and a volunteer faculty member at University of Colorado.

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