Skin cancer prevention.
The Health of the Nation objectives for skin cancer will only be achieved through prevention and early detection. The key Health of the Nation objective to halt the year on year increase in skin cancer by 2000 means that this ambitious target must be tackled through a multidisciplinary approach. In this article, the authors suggest that most future strategies for reducing skin cancer will be based in primary care and some of these will be led by nurses.
Taylor
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Department of Dermatology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea.
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D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012307:Risk Factors; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*