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Most Melanomas Occur As New Lesions, Not In Existing Moles, Meta-Analysis Finds.

HealthDay (8/29, Reinberg) reports a meta-analysispublished online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that existing moles are not the most likely place for melanoma to develop. A review of 38 previously published medical studies involving over 20,000 melanomas revealed that just 29 percent of the skin cancers began in moles patients already had, while 71 percent came from new lesions on the skin. Medscape (8/29, Harrison) also covers the study.

Benjamin Hidalgo-Matlock

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