Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients

Health care providers and their patients jointly participate in melanoma prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment. This paper reviews screening and follow-up strategies for patients who have been diagnosed with melanoma, based on current available evidence, and focuses on methods to assess...

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Main Authors:	Gamble, Ryan G., Jensen, Daniel, Suarez, Andrea L., Hanson, Anne H., McLaughlin, Lauren, Duke, Jodi, Dellavalle, Robert P.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835125/

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spelling	pubmed-38351252013-11-21 Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients Gamble, Ryan G. Jensen, Daniel Suarez, Andrea L. Hanson, Anne H. McLaughlin, Lauren Duke, Jodi Dellavalle, Robert P. Review Health care providers and their patients jointly participate in melanoma prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment. This paper reviews screening and follow-up strategies for patients who have been diagnosed with melanoma, based on current available evidence, and focuses on methods to assess disease recurrence and second primary occurrence. Secondary prevention, including the roles of behavioral modification and chemoprevention are also reviewed. The role of follow-up dermatologist consultation, with focused physical examinations complemented by dermatoscopy, reflectance confocal microscopy, and/or full-body mapping is discussed. Furthermore, we address the inclusion of routine imaging and laboratory assessment as components of follow-up and monitoring of advanced stage melanoma. The role of physicians in addressing the psychosocial stresses associated with a diagnosis of melanoma is reviewed. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3835125/ /pubmed/24281112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers2021178 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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author	Gamble, Ryan G. Jensen, Daniel Suarez, Andrea L. Hanson, Anne H. McLaughlin, Lauren Duke, Jodi Dellavalle, Robert P.
spellingShingle	Gamble, Ryan G. Jensen, Daniel Suarez, Andrea L. Hanson, Anne H. McLaughlin, Lauren Duke, Jodi Dellavalle, Robert P. Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
author_facet	Gamble, Ryan G. Jensen, Daniel Suarez, Andrea L. Hanson, Anne H. McLaughlin, Lauren Duke, Jodi Dellavalle, Robert P.
author_sort	Gamble, Ryan G.
title	Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
title_short	Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
title_full	Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
title_fullStr	Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
title_full_unstemmed	Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients
title_sort	outpatient follow-up and secondary prevention for melanoma patients
description	Health care providers and their patients jointly participate in melanoma prevention, surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment. This paper reviews screening and follow-up strategies for patients who have been diagnosed with melanoma, based on current available evidence, and focuses on methods to assess disease recurrence and second primary occurrence. Secondary prevention, including the roles of behavioral modification and chemoprevention are also reviewed. The role of follow-up dermatologist consultation, with focused physical examinations complemented by dermatoscopy, reflectance confocal microscopy, and/or full-body mapping is discussed. Furthermore, we address the inclusion of routine imaging and laboratory assessment as components of follow-up and monitoring of advanced stage melanoma. The role of physicians in addressing the psychosocial stresses associated with a diagnosis of melanoma is reviewed.
publisher	Molecular Diversity Preservation International
publishDate	2010
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835125/
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Outpatient Follow-up and Secondary Prevention for Melanoma Patients

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