Educational and screening campaigns to reduce deaths from melanoma.
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Summary
Various strategies to reduce avoidable mortality are discussed--including targeted screening of persons with changing moles and middle-aged and older men of lower socioeconomic status, and the framework for a randomized screening trial for melanoma is proposed.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2009-06-01
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 52
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2077251451
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:19789152
Keywords
Socioeconomic status, Medicine, Randomized controlled trial, Melanoma, Disease
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- Need to improve skin cancer screening of high-risk patients: Comment on "Skin cancer screening by dermatologists, family practitioners, and internists".
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- Cáncer de piel en pacientes menores de 40 años. Experiencia de cuatro años en el Hospital General de México
- The Role of Spatially-Derived Access-to-Care Characteristics in Melanoma Prevention and Control in Los Angeles County
- Prevalence and Mortality of Melanoma in Oklahoma Among Racial Groups, 2000-2008
- Conflicts and contradictions in current skin cancer screening guidelines
- Development and preliminary validation of the physician support of skin self-examination scale
- A qualitative descriptive study of a novel nurse-led skin cancer screening model in rural Australia
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