Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Euromelanoma skin cancer prevention campaign in Europe: characteristics and results of 2009 and 2010

Abstract

Background  Euromelanoma is a skin cancer education and prevention campaign that started in 1999 in Belgium as ‘Melanoma day’. Since 2000, it is active in a large and growing number of European countries under the name Euromelanoma.


Objective  To evaluate results of Euromelanoma in 2009 and 2010 in 20 countries, describing characteristics of screenees, rates of clinically suspicious lesions for skin cancer and detection rates of melanomas.


Methods  Euromelanoma questionnaires were used by 20 countries providing their data in a standardized database (Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, FYRO Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, ...

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