Need to improve skin cancer screening of high-risk patients

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-45

  Garg, Amit ^a   Geller, Alan ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; DERMATOLOGIST; FULL SKIN EXAMINATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SKIN CANCER; SKIN EXAMINATION; SPECIALIZATION;

HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MELANOMA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78751541354     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.385     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Powers J, Jacob R, Powers M, et al. The integrated skin examination: an educational intervention developed to enhance the ability and willingness of medical students to examine the skin for melanoma. Paper presented at: Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Dermatology; October 8, 2010; Chicago, IL.
2. Geller AC. Educational and screening campaigns to reduce deaths from melanoma. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2009;23(3):515-527, ix.