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Genital melanoma: are we adequately screening our patients?
Joseph Zikry, Lance W Chapman1, Dorota Z Korta
1UC Irvine Medical Center, Department of Dermatology, Irvine, California. lchapman@uci.edu.
Dermatology Online Journal
|March 23, 2017
Abstract:
Full-body skin exams (FBSE) play an integral role inearly detection and treatment of skin cancer. Promptdetection of melanoma is especially importantas survival outcomes decrease significantly withpresentation of advanced disease. Given thatmelanoma may grow in areas of skin with little to nosun exposure, genital melanomas are a recognizedentity in cutaneous oncology.
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