A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Check All Peripheral Margins: . . . A Far, Far Better Thing That I Do*

Daniel Mark Siegel; Brett M. Coldiron

doi:10.1001/archderm.140.6.743

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June 2004

A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Check All Peripheral Margins: ". . . A Far, Far Better Thing That I Do"*

Daniel Mark Siegel, MD; Brett M. Coldiron, MD

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Arch Dermatol. 2004;140(6):743-744. doi:10.1001/archderm.140.6.743

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Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC)¹and melanoma² are epidemic in the United States. One analysis of a large prepaid health insurance program indicated that the incidence of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) increased by 2.6 times in men and 3.1 times in women over a 20-year period from the 1960s to the 1980s.³ Another large study put the increase in SCC from 1980 to 1994 at 235% in men and 350% in women and the increase in basal cell skin cancer (BCC) at more than 80% in both sexes.⁴

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A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Check All Peripheral Margins: ". . . A Far, Far Better Thing That I Do"*

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