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American Academy of Dermatology, March 3-7

The American Academy of Dermatology The annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology was held from March 3 to 7 in Orlando,...
For patients with BRAF wild-type metastatic melanoma

Cost-Effectiveness Compared for Metastatic Melanoma Treatments

First-line pembrolizumab or nivolumab followed by second-line ipilumumab most cost-effective
Receiving a preoperative educational telephone call does not reduce anxiety or improve satisfaction for patients undergoing same-day office consultation and Mohs micrographic surgery

Pre-Op Phone Consult Doesn’t Cut Anxiety Before Mohs Surgery

Educational telephone consult doesn't reduce anxiety or up satisfaction before Mohs micrographic sx
A sizeable proportion of melanoma survivors still report elevated sun exposure

Sun Protection Behaviors Often Poor Among Melanoma Survivors

One in five had suffered a sunburn in the past year, researchers find
Skin cancers linked to indoor tanning are estimated to have cost the U.S. health care system hundreds of millions of dollars in 2015

Indoor Tanning Cost U.S. Health Care $343 Million Annually

Skin cancers from ultraviolet light in devices totaled $343.1 million in 2015 alone, researchers say
Large-scale skin cancer screening

Large-Scale Skin Cancer Screening Initiative Feasible

Screened patients more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma and thinner invasive melanoma
Quenched activity-based probe imaging can discriminate cancer from normal appearing skin tissue

Quenched Activity-Based Probe Imaging Beneficial in NMSC

Probe imaging can differentiate basal, squamous cell carcinomas from normal appearing skin tissue
There is regional variation in the incidence and death rates for melanoma; and sex

Incidence of Melanoma Continues to Rise in Majority of States

And, sex, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity impact the prevalence of indoor tanning use among youth
Imaging using fluorescence confocal microscopy analysis in the reflectance mode and with an "en face" scanning can control tumor margins of eyelid basal cell carcinoma to optimize surgical management

Confocal Microscopy Aids Surgical Removal of Tumors From Eyelid

Current study evaluated reflectance mode, horizontal scanning for removal of eyelid basal cell carcinoma
The burden of melanoma is increasing in the United States

Melanoma Incidence, Mortality Continue to Rise in the U.S.

Compound annual growth rate: 0.9 percent in raw incidence, 3.0 percent in in situ melanoma incidence