Melanoma surveillance program shows promise

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Melanoma By OpenStax College - Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. Jun 19, 2013., CC BY 3.0

A structured surveillance program for people at high risk of melanoma previously implemented at a single centre was effective in the longer-term and in other centres, including a primary care skin cancer clinic, according to an Australian study of 593 people at very high risk of melanoma from four melanoma clinics in NSW. The program involves full-body examinations every six months aided by total-body photography and sequential digital dermoscopy imaging. The research suggests the program should be implemented on a larger scale, including at primary care skin cancer clinics, and can be expected to deliver consistent and sustainable benefits, the authors say.

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conference: JAMA Dermatology

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Organisation/s: The University of Sydney, The University of Queensland, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The Australian National University

Funder: Financial support was provided by the Centre of Research Excellence in Melanoma grant 1135285 from the NHMRC to Drs Guitera, Fernandez-Penas, Mann, and Cust; Career Development Fellowship 1147843 from the NHMRC to Dr Cust; and Translational Program Grant 10 TPG 1-02 from the Cancer Institute NSW to Drs Menzies and Mann.

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