Terushkin Vitaly, Halpern Allan C
Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 160 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022, USA.
Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2009 Jun;23(3):481-500, viii. doi: 10.1016/j.hoc.2009.03.001.
Recognizing early forms of melanoma may have significant impact on decreasing mortality from this malignancy. As a result, multiple efforts have focused on developing new and improving current early detection strategies. These include educating patients about the importance of performing skin self-examination, increasing rates of complete skin examinations by physicians in the context of routine care, initiating mass screening campaigns, creating specialized skin cancer clinics, and developing better diagnostic tools through advances in technology. In this article, the current state of these efforts is reviewed.
识别黑色素瘤的早期形式可能对降低这种恶性肿瘤的死亡率产生重大影响。因此，多项工作都集中在开发新的和改进现有的早期检测策略上。这些策略包括教育患者进行皮肤自我检查的重要性，在常规护理中提高医生进行全面皮肤检查的比例，开展大规模筛查活动，设立专门的皮肤癌诊所，以及通过技术进步开发更好的诊断工具。在本文中，将对这些工作的当前状况进行综述。
