Skin Cancer Nurses - A Screening Role
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Screening for skin cancer.
CONTEXT Malignant melanoma is often lethal, and its incidence in the United States has increased rapidly over the past 2 decades. Nonmelanoma skin cancer is seldom lethal, but, if advanced, can cause severe disfigurement and morbidity. Early detection and treatment of melanoma might reduce mortality, while early detection and treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancer might prevent major disfiguremen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2155-9554
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9554.1000130