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By Robert A. Schwartz
2nd ed, 536 pp, $199.95
Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5961-6

JAMA. 2008;300(9):1084.

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Skin cancer has become high profile for physicians, with increasing public awareness and with May now established as Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Along with the astronomical increase in incidence of melanoma (more than 110 000 new cases per year and 1 death every hour in the United States), it is now believed that 1 in 5 persons in the United States will develop skin cancer. With this increasing attention, many nondermatologists are becoming actively involved in screening and treatment—making this second edition of Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management timely and useful.

Schwartz lists his credentials (including a professorial appointment in nearly every department in his medical school as well as membership in a long list of honorary societies, primarily in Europe), which justify his careful selection of international colleagues as collaborators in this truly international compendium.

As an introductory reference text, the book is especially helpful for generalists, because they have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Larry Millikan, MD, Reviewer
Department of Dermatology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana

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