Partners can help identify melanoma
In a study of patients with previous melanoma diagnoses, their partners—who received skin examination training—identified far more mole irregularities than those in the control group, and they grew more confident performing the examinations. The study, published in JAMA Dermatology (Dec. 14, 2016), was conducted by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. The investigators found the benefits of partners frequently checking for troublesome