New research presented at the American Academy of Dermatology’s (AAD) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., Mar. 3 to 7, emphasized the importance of skin cancer prevention and early detection. Investigators examined data collected from 118,085 individuals who received a free skin cancer screening through the AAD’s SPOTme® program in 2009 and 2010. Approximately one-third of those surveyed indicated that they had recently observed a change in the size, shape or colour of a mo

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