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A New Message from the USPSTFFree

Behavioral counseling to prevent skin cancer is effective in young, fair-skinned patients.

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Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Rates: A Worldwide Problem

Cancer registries should include squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas to make trends in these common cancers visible.

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Melanoma Surveillance in the Digital Age

The most frequent dermatoscopic features associated with melanoma were focal changes in pigmentation or structure.

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Germline BAP1 Inactivation and Metastatic Ocular MelanomaFree

BAP1 mutation is associated with metastatic ocular melanoma and familial cutaneous-ocular melanoma.

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Allergic Reactions and TH9 Helper T Cells

How interleukin-9 and T helper 9 cells regulate allergic airway inflammation might elucidate the process of allergic disease.

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UVA1 Is Often A1!Free

After reviewing the evidence, a workshop group discusses the effectiveness, safety, and costs of UVA1 phototherapy.

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Red Melanomas

Red papules and nodules should raise suspicion of melanoma, but the mortality risk is comparable with pigmented melanomas.

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The Programmed Death-1 Protein Is Often Detected in Cutaneous CD4-Positive Small/Medium-Sized Pleomorphic T-cell LymphomaFree

This useful finding can prevent unnecessarily aggressive treatment.

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TIL'ing Immunotherapy

Although human cancers express antigens recognized by the immune system, immune responses don't always control tumor growth; tumor cells may adapt to avoid immune surveillance.

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Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans: Location and Transformation

Location on the extremities and fibrosarcomatous transformation indicated an increased risk for recurrence.

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Atopic Dermatitis Awash in GWAS

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies indicates that AD is caused by alterations in both epidermal differentiation and immune function.

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Editor's Picks from across Journal Watch

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Risk Factors for Clinical Failure in Cellulitis and Skin Abscess

Hospitalized patients with obesity may experience clinical failure because of inadequate antibiotic dosing.

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Antibiotic Resistance — More Than 4 Million Years Old!

Bacteria from a cave in New Mexico, isolated for more than 4 million years, showed resistance to 14 commercially available antibiotics.

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Cost-Effectiveness of Antimicrobial StewardshipFree

An active antimicrobial stewardship program at an academic medical center was found to be highly cost-effective.

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Staph in the Family

Decolonizing household contacts reduces everyone's chances of infection.

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Journal Watch Dermatology summarizes important medical journal articles about a wide variety of dermatologic subjects including atopic dermatitis, eczema, hemangioma, melanoma, phototherapy, psoriasis and scleroderma.

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Dermatology Editor-in-Chief

Dermatology Journal Watch
Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

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