Skin Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (07/28/2017)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Description of the Evidence

Added text to state that the long-term rise in incidence rates is caused by, at least in part, screening in clinical settings and self-examination resulting from campaigns to increase skin awareness.

Added text to state that a second study that used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program data between 2002 and 2009 reported similar findings (cited Weinstock et al. as reference 8).

Added text to state that the incidence of melanoma has also been increasing in children and adolescents.

Added Schoffer et al. as reference 30.

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