Visual Screening for Malignant Melanoma

Abstract

Melanoma is the only cancer for which incidence and mortality rates are rising unabated, while screening, the potential means for reducing the burden of disease, continues to be underused.¹ In contrast to other early detectable cancers, including breast, prostate, colorectal, and cervical cancers, with recently decreasing mortality rates, the mortality rate for melanoma in the United States increased by 29% from 1975 to 2000.^1,2