Sentences with phrase «force skin cancer screening»

However, screening for melanoma currently is not supported by U.S. Preventive Services Task Force skin cancer screening guidelines.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expressed several concerns regarding population - wide screening for skin cancer, including uncertainty whether screening would reduce deaths, having patients undergo unnecessary tissue biopsies and the cost associated with screening individuals who have a low - risk for developing skin cancer.

In the journal article, the authors disagreed with the task force's findings and the physicians who authored the article stated that routine body screening of «high risk» individuals could help reduce skin cancer deaths.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of visual skin examination by a clinician to screen for skin cancer in asymptomatic adults.

For something like visual screenings for skin cancer, though, there aren't a lot of large studies for the Task Force to look at.