Effectiveness of melanoma screening;Die effektivität der melanom-früherkennungsuntersuchung

Zeitschrift fur Allgemeinmedizin

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 215-220

  Enthaler, Nina ^a   Sönnichsen, Andreas ^b  

^a Institut für Allgemeinmedizin   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost Effectiveness; Early detection; Melanoma; Overdiagnosis Bias

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER;

EID: 84892409634     PISSN: 09376801     EISSN: 14399229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/zfa.2013.0215-0220     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Garbe C, Peris K, Hauschild A, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of melanoma: European consensus-based interdisciplinary guideline. Eur J Cancer 2010; 46: 270-283
2. Gesellschaft der epidemiologischen Krebsregister in Deutschland e.V. (GEKID). GEKID-Atlas: Inzidenz und Mortaliät von Krebserkrankungen. 2011: http://www.ekr.med.uni-erlangen.de/GEKID/ Aufruf vom 12.2.2013
3. Balch CM, Soong SJ, Atkins, MB, et al. An evidence-based staging system for cutaneous melanoma. CA Cancer J Clin 2004; 54: 131-149
4. Geller AC, Zhang Z, Sober AJ, et al. The first 15 years of the American Academy of Dermatology skin cancer screening programs: 1985-1999. J Am Acad Dermatol 2003; 48: 34-41
5. Welch HG, Black WC. Overdiagnosis in cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2010; 102: 605-613
6. Carli P, De Giorgi V, Palli D, et al. Dermatologist detection and skin self examination are associated with thinner melanomas: results from a survey of the Italian Multidisciplinary Group on Melanoma. Arch Dermatol 2003; 139: 607-612
7. Epstein DS, Lange JR, Gruber SB, Mofid M, Koch SE. Is physician detection associated with thinner melanomas? JAMA 1999; 281: 640-643
8. Aitken JF, Elwood M, Baade PD, Youl P, English D. Clinical whole-body skin examination reduces the incidence of thick melanomas. Int J Cancer 2010; 126: 450-458.
9. Wolff T, Tai E, Miller T. Screening for skin cancer: an update of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med 2009; 150: 194-198
10. Berwick M, Armstrong BK, Ben-Porat L, et al. Sun exposure and mortality from melanoma. J Natl Cancer Inst 2005; 97: 195-9
11. Aitken JF, Elwood JM, Lowe JB, Firman DW, Balanda KP, Ring IT. A randomised trial of population screening for melanoma. J Med Screen 2002; 9: 33-37
12. Schubert A. [Malignant melanoma of the skin: does screening for cancer influence the incidence and mortality?]. Gesundheitswesen 2012; 74: 154-9
13. Levell NJ, Beattie CC, Shuster S, Greenberg DC. Melanoma epidemic: a midsummer night's dream? Br J Dermatol 2009; 161: 630-634
14. Breitbart EW, Waldmann A, Nolte S, et al. Systematic skin cancer screening in Northern Germany. J Am Acad Dermatol 2012; 66: 201-211
15. Katalinic A, Waldmann A, Weinstock MA, et al. Does skin cancer screening save lives?: An observational study comparing trends in melanoma mortality in regions with and without screening. Cancer 2012; 118: 5395-402
16. Herschorn A. Dermoscopy for melanoma detection in family practice. Can Fam Physician 2012; 58: 740-5
17. Waldmann A, Nolte S, Geller AC, et al. Frequency of excisions and yields of malignant skin tumors in a population-based screening intervention of 360, 288 whole-body examinations. Arch Dermatol. 2012; 148: 903-10
18. Girgis A, Clarke P, Burton RC, Sanson-Fisher RW. Screening for melanoma by primary health care physicians: a cost-effectiveness analysis. J Med Screen 1996; 3: 47-53
19. Freedberg KA, Geller AC, Miller DR, Lew RA, Koh HK. Screening for malignant melanoma: a cost-effectiveness analysis. J Am Acad Dermatol 1999; 41: 738-745
20. Losina E, Walensky RP, Geller A, et al. Visual screening for malignant melanoma: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Arch Dermatol 2007; 143: 21-28
21. Follmann M. Prävention und Früherkennung des Hautkrebses. AWMF online: http://www.awmf.org/leitlinien/detail/anmeldung/1/ll/032-052OL.html (letzter Zugriff 12.2.2013)
22. National Health and Medical Research Council. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Melanoma. 2008. http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/-files-nhmrc/ publications/attachments/cp111.pdf (letzter Zugriff 12.2.2013)