Research note: the Lions Cancer Institute and the Western Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons skin cancer screening programme

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
P KatrisB N Gray

Abstract

The Lions Cancer Institute, Perth, and the Western Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons have been investigating the feasibility of community based skin cancer screening. Members of the community responded to newspaper advertisements to attend free skin cancer screening events. This report presents preliminary results obtained from the methods development programme. Seventeen screening clinics were conducted in Perth (4) and country towns (14) in Western Australia between January 1991 and October 1993. The participants were interviewed and given promotional literature and their personal profiles were determined. A total body skin examination was performed by a specialist plastic surgeon and any suspicious lesions were recorded and, if necessary, recommendations for further treatment was documented. The number of individuals screened was 3397. Of these, 572 patients were referred to general practitioners for further medical attention of suspicious lesions, 79 patients were clinically diagnosed as having suspicious pigmented skin lesions (13.8% of total lesions and 2.3% of total sample screened). Of these, 53 individual patient pathology reports were obtained. Four invasive malignant melanomas and two in situ melanomas arising i...Continue Reading

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