Why does a Delay in Diagnosis of Skin Cancer Occur?
• Improper Surveillance Patients need to perform a monthly examination of their own skin and report growths and discolorations to their physicians, who in turn have a duty to examine them and determine whether skin lesions warrant additional analysis. People who are at elevated risks for developing skin cancers may warrant yearly, or possibly every six month, surveillance by a dermatologist. Unfortunately, patients’ follow-up visits are missed due to failure to inform the patient of their risk and the need for follow-up, scheduling SNAFUs, etc, and precancerous growths than evolve into cancers outside the watchful eye of the vigilant physician. Another type of problem occurs even when patients return for routine follow-up. While it seems logical that physicians and other providers who perform your health maintenance care would keep track of whether moles and lesions are changing or growing, there is no standard method to record and follow skin changes. Some physicians take photographs
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