What is it about?
This is about the lack of proven benefits of skin cancer screening and the harm associated with skin cancer screening like unnecessary skin excisions
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Why is it important?
Financial resources for health care and time of doctors providing health care are limited and should be directed towards intervention with proven benefits.
Perspectives
Patients worried about skin disorders need access to care. Systematic screening for skin cancer is not better than opportunistic screening of people reporting skin problems.
Professor Jean-Francois Chenot
Dpt. of General Practice / Family Medicine, University Medicine Greifswalde
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This page is a summary of: „Kein Nachweis, dass der Nutzen den Schaden überwiegt“, MMW - Fortschritte der Medizin, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s15006-015-3052-z.
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