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8272906

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Every physician's office should be a melanoma detection station. Identification and surgical excision of early melanoma is today's best answer to reducing the death rate from this treacherous disease. Public awareness of melanoma is gaining momentum. Melanoma education for physicians is vital if the battle against melanoma is to be successful. This presentation is a challenge to all physicians and students of medicine to identify patients at risk for melanoma and to follow up with a skin scan to search for suspicious spots on all patients with risk factors for melanoma as a part of their physical examination. We need to teach individuals at risk to do self-examination, to report immediately any recent growth changes in an existing mole or any recently acquired pigmented lesion, and to practice the rules of safe sun exposure. Because securing a suitable specimen of tissue for biopsy and proper interpretation of sections are paramount in patient management and understanding prognosis, we present guidelines for performing a proper biopsy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0038-4348
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
86
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1325-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Think melanoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review