Visiting the dental practice is a valuable opportunity for skin cancer screening, says Ben J. Steel.
Survival is higher for melanomas less than 1.5 mm in thickness at diagnosis, when radical surgery may still be curative; the prognosis for thicker tumours or disseminated disease is poor. Earlier diagnosis also contributes to socioeconomic differences in survival. Survival patterns in Scotland sugge...
current knowledge on the genetic basis of skin color variation is still limited (Liu et al.2013). A better understanding of human skin color genetics is highly relevant for medicine, i.e., due to the relationship with many skin diseases such as skin cancer (Chen et al.2014); evolutionary ...