Screening children and adolescents for cutaneous malignant melanoma: the impossible trade-off between life-years saved and unnecessary biopsies

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Authors

Bucchi Lauro · Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori

Silvia Mancini · Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori

Pietro Ceretti · University of Parma

Federica Zamagni · Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori

Emanuele Crocetti · Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori

Luigino Dal Maso · Centro di Riferimento Oncologico

Stefano Ferretti

Abstract

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.

Topics & Keywords

Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Lymphadenopathy Diagnosis and Analysis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Frontiers in Oncology

Volume 16, pp. 1726375-1726375

DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2026.1726375

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