Melanoma detection rate and concordance between self‐skin examination and clinical evaluation in patients attending a pigmented lesion clinic in Italy

Background The early diagnosis of melanoma is based on the collaboration between dermatologists and family doctors, who filter subjects to be referred to a pigmented lesion clinic (PLC). Following growing media coverage, there is increasing concern in the general population about the risk of the ‘changing mole’, resulting in a progressively increased workload in PLCs.

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