Cutaneous Oncology News

As students go back to school and parents resign beach gear to its out-of-season digs at the back of the garage, Healio Dermatology reflects on big news from August on acne treatment, private equity in the marketplace and much more.

Patients who received individualized advice directly from their general practitioner improved their sun protection, according to findings from a randomized controlled study.

Surgical techniques in Mohs micrographic surgery and Mohs surgery with immunohistochemistry for melanoma widely differ across geographic areas despite static National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, according to researchers in JAMA Dermatology.

Women aged 46 to 65 years prescribed spironolactone for acne had a higher rate of incident hyperkalemia compared with younger women, which warrants further potassium monitoring guidance and protocols, according to Rebecca M. Thiede, MD, resident and fellow of the division of dermatology at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, and colleagues in the most popular Healio Dermatology article from last week.

Skin cancer and sun damage procedures, along with laser-, light- and energy-based procedures, have all increased since 2017, according to dermatologist members in the 2018 Survey on Dermatologic Procedures.

Measures taken by the Society for Investigative Dermatology to improve gender inequality and the underrepresentation of minorities have been successful within leadership and its awards, according to researchers in Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

The use of salvage limited-field irradiation in aggressive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with microscopic residual disease resulted in a progression rate of more than 80%, which is much higher than the usual failure rate for high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, according to findings published in JAMA Dermatology.

Private equity-based dermatology practice consolidation increased at a mean rate of 65% each year from 2012 to 2017, according to researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in the current top story from August.

Melanoma probability scores increased due to standard skin markings from surgical ink and were associated with a significant reduction in the specificity of a convolutional neural network trained in dermoscopic images, according to an analysis in JAMA Dermatology.

A teledermatology program at the Cleveland Clinic resulted in a reduction in visits and diagnostic concordance comparable to previously reported findings, according to results published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.