Skin Cancer Screening
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منابع مشابه
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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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. US incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing faster than any other type of cancer. To minimize increasing morbidity and mortality rates, it is imperative that appropriate screening and early detection of skin cancer become more widespread. All physicians who see patients clinically have the potential for detecting skin canc...
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BACKGROUND Telemedicine refers to the use of technology as improvement of healthcare delivery to places where distance becomes an obstacle. Its use represents a great potential for dermatology, a specialty whose visual analysis phase is essential in diagnosis. OBJECTIVES To analyze the compatibility index of skin cancer diagnoses between primary care and teledermatology, and to validate a pro...
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Skin tumors are the most frequent malignancies in the white population worldwide and have reached the proportion of an epidemic disease. Since non-melanocytic skin cancers can be cured when timely detected, given that still malignant melanoma may have good prognosis if early diagnosed, and considering the key role of primary care in cancer screening advising and implementation, the internationa...
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Skin cancer screening has undoubted potential to reduce cancer-specific morbidity and mortality. Total-body exams remain the prevailing concept of skin cancer screening even if effectiveness and value of this method are controversial. Meanwhile, store and forward teledermatology was shown to be a reliable instrument for several diagnostic purposes mostly in specialized dermatology settings. The...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Therapy
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0031-9023,1538-6724
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/82.12.1232