Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Video intervention may increase skin cancer diagnosis in older men

Showing men a video on skin self-examination and skin awareness may help to increase the number of patients who receive whole-body clinical skin examinations (CSEs) from their physicians, which could increase skin cancer diagnosis in older men, according to a study by Monika Janda, Ph.D., of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues. In the United States, death rates from melanoma have decreased in women but have increased in men.

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