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. 1990 Jan;122(1):53-9.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1990.tb08239.x.

The initial effects on workload and outcome of a public education campaign on early diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma in Leicestershire

R A Graham-Brown  1 , J E Osborne, S P London, A Fletcher, D Shaw, B Williams, V Bowry
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The initial effects on workload and outcome of a public education campaign on early diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma in Leicestershire

R A Graham-Brown et al. Br J Dermatol. 1990 Jan.

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  • Br J Dermatol 1990 May;122(5):722

Abstract

We report our experience of the initial effects of a publicity campaign directed at early presentation of malignant melanoma in Leicestershire. The campaign resulted in a dramatic increase in workload and, at the pigmented lesion clinic, the numbers of new patients rose from 12.3 to 54.5 per clinic. There was a large rise in the number of new melanomas presenting in Leicestershire: from 1.02 per week before the campaign to 1.88 per week in the immediate post-publicity period. This was statistically significant (P less than 0.001). Although there was also an apparently encouraging rise in the percentage of thinner 'good prognosis' tumours, it was not possible to isolate this statistically from a pre-existing trend.

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