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The Physician Factor

June K. Robinson, MD; Kimberly A. Mallett, PhD; Rob Turrisi, PhD; Jerod Stapleton, BS

Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(4):469-473.

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In 2008, approximately 62 480 people in the United States are expected to have developed melanoma, which is now the sixth most common cancer in men and women.¹ Men aged 70 years or older have the highest probability of developing melanoma, 1 in 64.¹ Of the 8420 anticipated deaths from melanoma in 2008, older men will be disproportionately represented.^2-3

MELANOMA: RISK FACTORS AND BARRIERS TO EARLY DETECTION

A growing body of sex-specific studies shows a trend among men, especially white middle-class men, of delaying seeking help when they become ill.⁴ By delaying seeking care, men present at a later stage of melanoma when it is no longer treatable. The benefit of early detection, which led to improvement in the mortality rate in women from 1991 to 2004 (from 1.82 per 100 000 to 1.70 in 2004), has not been realized with men, whose mortality rate of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

THE ROLE OF SSEs IN THE DETECTION OF MELANOMA

THE IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICIAN-PATIENT COMMUNICATION IN ENHANCING SSEs

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