The Euromelanoma skin cancer prevention campaign in Europe: characteristics and results of 2009 and 2010
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11130%2F11%3A7272" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11130/11:7272 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951235" target="_blank" >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951235</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Euromelanoma skin cancer prevention campaign in Europe: characteristics and results of 2009 and 2010
Original language description
Background Euromelanoma is a skin cancer education and prevention campaign that started in 1999 in Belgium as Melanoma day. Since 2000, it is active in a large and growing number of European countries under the name Euromelanoma. Objective To evaluate results of Euromelanoma in 2009 and 2010 in 20 countries, describing characteristics of screenees, rates of clinically suspicious lesions for skin cancer and detection rates of melanomas. Methods Euromelanoma questionnaires were used by 20 countries providing their data in a standardized database (Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, FYRO Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldavia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine). Results Intotal, 59 858 subjects were screened in 20 countries. Most screenees were female (64%), median ages were 43 (female) and 46 (male) and 33% had phototype I or II. The suspicion rates ranged from 1.1% to 19.4% for melanoma (average 2.8%), f
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FO - Dermatology and venereology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
ISSN
0926-9959
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1455-1465
UT code for WoS article
000297952800015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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