Screening for melanoma/skin cancer: Theoretic and practical considerations

Malignant melanoma. A clinicopathological analysis of the criteria for diagnosis and prognosis

1953 • 988 citations

Early Detection of Malignant Melanoma: The Role of Physician Examination and Self-Examination of the Skin

1985 • 816 citations

The Periodic Health Examination

1934 • 495 citations

Screening in chronic disease

1993 • 451 citations

Use and Misuse of the Term “Cost Effective” in Medicine

1986 • 416 citations

Basic Issues in Population Screening for Cancer<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN3">3</xref>

1980 • 329 citations

Cancer Statistics, 1988

1988 • 282 citations

The Lifetime Health-Monitoring Program

1977 • 266 citations

Performance of cancer screening in a university general internal medicine practice

1986 • 252 citations

Screening procedures in the asymptomatic adult. Comparison of physicians' recommendations, patients' desires, published guidelines, and actual practice

1985 • 220 citations

How well do physicians recognize melanoma and other problem lesions?

1986 • 190 citations

The Ability of Primary Care Physicians to Recognize the Common Dermatoses

1981 • 165 citations

A public health intervention model for work-site health promotion. Impact on exercise and physical fitness in a health promotion plan after 24 months.

1986 • 163 citations

Screening in Chronic Disease

1985 • 146 citations

Evaluating periodic multiphasic health checkups: A controlled trial

1979 • 145 citations

Clinical diagnosis of dysplastic melanocytic nevi

1986 • 131 citations

Screening Procedures in the Asymptomatic Adult

1985 • 130 citations

Women who decline breast screening.

1984 • 124 citations

A Public Health Intervention Model for Work-Site Health Promotion

1986 • 124 citations

Diagnostic Accuracy in Malignant Melanoma

1975 • 124 citations

Importance of complete cutaneous examination for the detection of malignant melanoma

1986 • 122 citations

Lead Time Gained by Diagnostic Screening for Breast Cancer<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN3">3</xref>

1968 • 122 citations

The Rising Incidence and Mortality Rate of Malignant Melanoma

1982 • 120 citations

Acceptors and rejectors of an invitation to undergo breast screening compared with those who referred themselves.

1980 • 107 citations

Sensitivity and reproducibility of chemical tests for fecal occult blood with an emphasis on false-positive reactions

1973 • 102 citations

Who is being screened for cervical cancer?

1981 • 101 citations

Case-control studies for the evaluation of screening

1986 • 100 citations

CASE DEFINITION IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES OF THE EFFICACY OF SCREENING

1982 • 98 citations

Residents’Corner: Diagnoses of Skin Disease: Dermatologists vs. Nondermatologists

1985 • 89 citations

The Effects of Early Treatment, Lead Time and Length Bias on the Mortality Experienced by Cases Detected by Screening

1982 • 82 citations

Familial Malignant Melanoma

1986 • 81 citations

Clinical diagnostic accuracy of basal cell carcinoma

1987 • 79 citations

Concepts and problems in the evaluation of screening programs

1981 • 77 citations

The Queensland Melanoma Project--an exercise in health education.

1979 • 71 citations

PITFALLS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF MELANOMA

1954 • 65 citations

Nnmelanotic Skin Cancer and Solar Keratoses

1987 • 62 citations

Frequency of skin cancer and solar keratoses in a rural southern county as determined by population sampling

1974 • 61 citations

Early detection of malignant melanoma

1976 • 60 citations

Knowledge of Testicular Cancer Risk and Need for Self-Examination in College Students: A Call for Equal Time for Men in Teaching of Early Cancer Detection Techniques

1984 • 59 citations

Screening in health fairs. A critical review of benefits, risks, and costs

1985 • 50 citations

The economics of cancer prevention and detection: Getting more for less

1981 • 47 citations

Diagnostic Accuracy— A New Approach to Its Evaluation

1965 • 46 citations

Optimising the age, number of tests, and test interval for cervical screening in Canada.

1982 • 44 citations

Nevi: A Problem of Misdiagnosis

1952 • 40 citations

Epidemiology of Cutaneous Melanoma

1985 • 39 citations

Screening in Health Fairs

1985 • 37 citations

Malignant Melanoma

1956 • 34 citations

Periorbital Basal Cell Carcinoma Requiring Ablative Craniofacial Surgery

1987 • 34 citations

Epidemiology of screening for cancer

1982 • 34 citations

SCREENING, DETECTION, AND DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER

1982 • 33 citations

The Periodic Health Examination and Internal Medicine: 1984

1984 • 31 citations

Office-based care of dermatologic disease

1986 • 28 citations

Melanoma/skin cancer screening in Michigan

1987 • 25 citations

A Two-Year Experience With a Series of Rural Skin and Oral Cancer Detection Clinics

1971 • 23 citations

Skin cancer screening—a local experience

1987 • 22 citations

Some observations on the diagnosis of clinically pigmented skin tumours

1951 • 20 citations

Screening by nurse clinicians in cancer prevention and detection

1985 • 17 citations

Evaluating and planning screening programmes.

1985 • 16 citations

Epidemiologic-based screening strategies for malignant melanoma of the skin.

1984 • 15 citations

A new approach to cancer screening and education.

1973 • 15 citations

Tumor biology in explanation of the failure of screening for cancer and in determination of future strategies

1986 • 12 citations

Reply

1985 • 11 citations

Experience with a skin cancer detection clinic at a state fair.

1974 • 10 citations

Campaigns for the detection and ~prevention of melanoma and skin cancers

1987 • 10 citations

Motivating the public to take advantage of skin cancer screening

1986 • 10 citations

Screening for skin cancer at a county fair.

1975 • 10 citations

CANCER DETECTION IN WORKING WOMEN: A REPORT ON 7450 SUBJECTS

1977 • 9 citations

Routine total skin examination to detect malignant melanoma

1987 • 9 citations

Thoughts on Melanoma

1984 • 8 citations

Skin cancer. Screening in urban community.

1978 • 8 citations

Clinical Differentiation of Adult-Onset Cavernous Angioma From Nodular Malignant Melanoma

1980 • 6 citations

Prevention

1981 • 4 citations

Reply

1985 • 1 citations