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Old 11-26-2014, 04:23 PM
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Here are the screening guidelines recommended by Memorial Sloan Kettering:

Our Skin Cancer Screening Guidelines

Our doctors do not recommend routine skin cancer screening. We do recommend lifelong dermatologic surveillance for patients with a personal history of melanoma. In addition, we recommend that individuals identified during routine care who meet any of the following criteria be considered for skin cancer risk assessment by a dermatologist:

A family history of melanoma in two or more blood relatives
The presence of multiple atypical moles
The presence of numerous actinic keratoses (precancerous lesions that are grey to pink colored scaly patches of skin on sun-exposed areas of the body)

Having noted this, I personally see my dermatologist annually since I've had a MOHs procedure for basal cell cancer.
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