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Skin Cancer Often Goes Undetected During Routine Check-ups

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Health Day reports that non-dermatologist physicians could benefit from skin cancer education. This comes after a new study found that general doctors who refer patients to a dermatologist because of a suspicious lesion, have often missed another lesion that ends up being cancerous.

At the same time, it is not uncommon for there to be a risk of skin cancer elsewhere, even if the suspicious lesion is found not to be. So while referring patients to dermatologists is still helpful, it is believed that too many lesions are being missed by general doctors. That leaves some patients who are in need of a referral, without one.

This could be potentially life-saving since more than 3.5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year in the United States.

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