The increase in melanoma diagnoses in the United States, while mortality has remained flat, has raised concerns about overdiagnosis of melanoma, cases that may not result in harm if left untreated.

Patients with small melanoma in situ (MIS) on low-risk body sites that was managed with 5-mm margins had a local recurrence rate of 0.9%, results from a retrospective case series from a single ...

Q: My sister-in-law is 82 years old and was recently diagnosed with melanoma. She has an appointment for treatment in a couple of weeks. I thought this was a serious and deadly disease. Can a patient ...

Melanoma diagnoses increased sharply over the years but overall death rates remained flat, a sign that there really isn’t an epidemic of skin cancer, but rather that patients are being overdiagnosed. ...

According to a recent study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, the overdiagnosis of skin cancer among White American patients has been significantly increasing over time. From 1975 to 2016, the ...

Impact of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on the Incidence of Mutations in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Gene in Never-Smoker Patients With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer We studied patients with a ...