Original articleImpact of skin cancer screening and secondary prevention campaigns on skin cancer incidence and mortality: A systematic review
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Methods
We conducted a systematic review based on a study protocol that was registered in PROSPERO, the international prospective register of systematic reviews (http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/; registration number: CRD42014013400).
Results
The systematic literature search yielded 1787 records in MEDLINE, 279 additional records in EMBASE, and 10 records from reference lists. After 1860 records were excluded in the title and abstract screening, we assessed 204 full-text articles for eligibility and included 15 articles.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 The study selection process is shown in Fig 1. Our interrater reliability was good (Cohen's kappa 0.64).
Discussion
This review aims to update the evidence on the impact of skin cancer screening or secondary prevention campaigns on skin cancer incidence, mortality, stage-specific incidence, or interval cancers.
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Disclosure: Drs Waldmann, Eisemann, and Katalinic are authors of several of the included publications. Ms Brunssen has no conflicts of interest to declare.
Supplemental Table I, Supplemental Table II, Supplemental Table III, Supplemental Table IV, Supplemental Table V, Supplemental Table VI are available at http://www.jaad.org.
PROSPERO registration number: CRD42014013400.
Presented as a poster at the annual conference of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine (DNEbM) in Berlin, Germany, on March 13, 2015; an oral presentation at the annual conference of the German Society for Epidemiology in Potsdam, Germany, on October 1, 2015; and an oral presentation at the annual conference of DNEbM in Cologne, Germany, on March 4, 2016.