Towards evidence-based skin checks
Source: Insight Plus, October 2024
Although melanoma is often referred to as Australia’s national cancer, an organised screening program is recommended for cost effectiveness and diagnosis.
Australians are generally known for their love of the outdoors — sun, surf and swimming. It’s one factor, including high solar ultraviolet radiation, that leads to us having the highest incidence per capita of melanoma in the world.
In a new perspective in the Medical Journal of Australia, the way skin cancer is diagnosed in this country is put under the microscope.