“Skin cancer rates are rocketing. Thanks to over-enthusiastic sunbathing in previous decades, melanoma cases have tripled in numbers in the UK since the early 1990s” – reports the Guardian in an article introducing new research on treatment.
Check these resources for an overview, key points,
diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more.
[You will need your NHS OpenAthens username to access these
resources]
Oxford Medicine Online – Chapter 34 Skin
Cancer from Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing
BMJ Best Practice – Overview of Skin Cancer
Clinical Key (available to UHNM only) – Melanoma
Clinical Overview
Clinical Knowledge Summaries – Skin
cancers - recognition and referral
Cochrane Library systematic reviews – Diagnosing
Skin Cancer (special collection)
Patient Information
- Skin cancer (melanoma): how is it diagnosed and treated? [BMJ Best Practice]
- Squamous cell skin cancer: questions to ask your doctor [BMJ Best Practice]
- Preventing Skin Cancer, Adult [Clinical Key]
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