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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Skin Cancer: Screening

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Systematic Review

Source: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Last Reviewed: April 2023

Workgroups: Cancer Workgroup, Access to Health Services Workgroup

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that there is insufficient evidence to assess whether the benefits of skin cancer screening outweigh the harms in adolescents and adults who don’t have symptoms.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the overall cancer death rate — C‑01
Improving
Increase the proportion of adults who get recommended evidence-based preventive health care — AHS‑08
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (2023). Skin Cancer: Screening. Retrieved from https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-screening