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Age
N/A

Organization/Year
USPSTF/2009

Recommended Frequency
N/A

Comments/Grade
The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of using a whole-body skin examination by a primary care clinician or patient skin self-examination for the early detection of cutaneous melanoma, basal cell cancer, or squamous cell skin cancer in the adult general population. (I)