Risk-stratified screening for detection of melanoma

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 616-617

  Sondak, Vernon K ^a   Glass, L Frank ^a   Geller, Alan C ^b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A;

AUSTRALIA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CDK4 GENE; CDKN2A GENE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENTIAL DIGITAL DERMOSCOPY IMAGING; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA; TOTAL BODY PHOTOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

DERMOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84922575452     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.13813     Document Type: Note

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