Screening children and adolescents for cutaneous malignant melanoma: the impossible trade-off between life-years saved and unnecessary biopsies
When screening children and adolescents for CMM, a trade-off between life-years saved and unnecessary biopsies is impossible to make because of the minimal prevalence and the ill-defined clinical/dermoscopic features of the disease.
Authors
- orietta giuliani
- Bucchi Lauro
- Fabio Falcini
- Luigino Dal Maso
- Silvia Mancini
- Antonino Musolino
- Flavia Baldacchini
- Rosa Vattiato
- Pietro Ceretti
- Ignazio Stanganelli
- Alessandra Ravaioli
- Emanuele Crocetti
Institutions
- University of Parma (IT)
- Local Government Association (GB)
- University of Ferrara (IT)
- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IT)
- Regional Health (US)
- University Hospitals Parma Medical Center (US)
- Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (IT)
- Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (IT)
- University of Bologna (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Oncology
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2026.1726375
- Primary Topic
- Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00