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Online skin cancer tool aims to encourage people to seek early medical help

By Skin Cancer Institute |March 30, 2016

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Professor David Whiteman, group leader of the QMIR Berghofer Medical Research Institute’s Cancer Control Group, has announced that the Institute has developed an online survey which predicts the risk of a patient over 40yrs developing a non-melanoma skin cancer in three years. He also states that this survey has an  80% accuracy rate.

The Cancer Control Group hopes that this survey will cause Australians to seek early medical advice about skin cancer and encourage many people who have not yet been examined to take the survey and if necessary become part of the medical system so as to  determine their risk.

If you would like to read the complete article reported recently by the ABC, go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-23/online-skin-cancer-tool-to-help-early-detection/7270148

PHOTO: Dr Richard Johns examines patient Fiona Edgecombe for skin cancer. (ABC News: Jessica van Vonderen)

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