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Skin Cancer Screenings at FTD Flags 12 Melanoma Cases
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 08/20/2014

The National Farm Medicine Center said its free skin cancer screenings at last week's Farm Technology Days show in Portage County may have made a life-saving difference for at least 12 individuals who were found to have melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer.

The program screened 607 people last week as 24 physicians, allied providers and staff from the Marshfield Clinic Dermatology Department, along with 10 Farm Center scientists and staff, volunteered for the three-day event held near Stevens Point. NFMC also enrolled 70 individuals in the Wisconsin Rollover Protective Structure Rebate Program.

"We tried to make it as easy as possible to take advantage of these services," said Tammy Ellis, education outreach specialist at the NFMC. "We had some people tell us that the last time they got screened for skin cancer was when we screened at Farm Tech Days in Clark County in 2005 and Marathon County in 2011."

Dr. Alexandra Carley said farmers are busy people and the screening at FTD helped make it convenient for them to get checked out.

Nationwide, an estimated 76,000 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed this year and an estimated 9,700 people will die from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.


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