Clinical and experimental dermatology
Higher Socioeconomic Status and Physician Accessibility Linked to More Early-stage but Not Fewer Late-Stage Melanoma Diagnoses.
Weichuan Dong, Uriel Kim, Brock Montgomery, Trisha Lal, Lingbo Liu, Hanna Kakish, Johnie Rose, Siran M Koroukian, Jeremy S Bordeaux, Luke D Rothermel, Richard S Hoehn
Published: 202510.1093/ced/llaf546
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status (SES) and physician accessibility, key proxies for skin cancer screening uptake, can influence melanoma diagnosis, but their impact on reducing advanced-stage diagnoses remains unclear. We examined how these indicator…
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