Research summary: Adherence to melanoma screening tailored to risk

Adherence to melanoma screening and surveillance skin check schedules tailored to personal risk.

This month we present a very interesting read. This is a study exploring what happens when patients do a formal melanoma risk assessment, and are then risk-stratified to specific follow-up intervals.

Compliance was not very high among patients and clinicians, for a variety of reasons!

This is worth reading and thinking about what might be implementable in your own practice. 

Read the full paper here.

– Prof David Wilkinson

Read another research summary from Prof David Wilkinson: Full‐body skin exams (focusing on concealed sites)

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