4 Topic Commentaries

What shapes patient attitudes toward TBP skin cancer screening?

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  Julia Curtis, MD

  Dermatology

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  University of Utah Health

  Correct, they're not in the medical record. They're on a separate encrypted drive that only a few people have access to.

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  Douglas Grossman, MD, PhD

  Dermatology

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  Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health

  I think equally important, we've avoided a lot of unnecessary biopsies and surgeries because we can confirm spots aren't changing; we don't need to remove them.

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  Veronica Rotemberg, MD, PhD

  Dermatology

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  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  The holy grail is to detect skin cancer as early as possible without causing undue harm by biopsying things that are not skin cancer.

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  James Grichnik, MD, PhD

  Dermatology

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  Duke University Medical Center

  It's much more likely that between the patient and the physician, if a melanoma develops, they'll be able to get it early and in a more curable timeframe.

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