Skin Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (07/30/2018)

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Description of the Evidence

Added text about two ecological studies conducted using data from Germany; the first was a pilot project conducted in 2003 and 2004, in which a skin cancer screening program was implemented in one federal state, and suggestion of a reduction in melanoma mortality with screening led to the establishment of county-wide skin cancer screening programs in 2008 (cited Katalinic et al. as reference 28). Also added text about the second ecological study that compared the melanoma mortality experience in Germany with the melanoma mortality experience of subregions of 22 European countries for the years 2000 to 2013, none of which had organized screening programs; after adjustment for potential confounders, Germany and the 22 European regions had similar malignant mortality rates, suggesting no benefit of screening (cited Kaiser et al. as reference 29).

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