Skin Cancer Exam in Primary Care: More Harm Than Good

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The USPSTF recently released a draft recommendation statement that reiterates previous assessments that there isn't enough evidence to judge whether screening for skin cancer in an average-risk patient without a history of cancer is beneficial. MedTwitter

did not change. Sunburns and tanning beds can't explain this dramatic increase in skin cancers, they argued; instead, greater diagnostic scrutiny , increasing use of skin biopsies, and falling pathologic thresholds for diagnosing melanoma are the most likely culprits.

Granted, overdiagnosis occurs in screening for breast, lung, and prostate cancers too, and that doesn't mean those tests aren't worth doing

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