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Hot Topic! Skin Cancer

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 “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.

woman wearing a big floppy hat and sun-cream on her face

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)

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