BACKGROUND: Euromelanoma is a @entity1489 education and prevention campaign that started in 1999 in Belgium as ' @entity320 day'. Since 2000, it is active in a large and growing number of European countries under the name Euromelanoma. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate results of Euromelanoma in 2009 and 2010 in 20 countries, describing characteristics of screenees, rates of clinically suspicious lesions for @entity1489 and detection rates of @entity320 . METHODS: Euromelanoma questionnaires were used by 20 countries providing their data in a standardized database (Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, FYRO Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldavia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine). RESULTS: In total, 59,858 subjects were screened in 20 countries. Most screenees were female (64%), median ages were 43 (female) and 46 (male) and 33% had phototype I or II. The suspicion rates ranged from 1.1% to 19.4% for @entity320 (average 2.8%), from 0.0% to 10.7% for @entity1491 (average 3.1%) and from 0.0% to 1.8% for @entity957 (average 0.4%). The overall positive predictive value of countries where (estimation of) positive predictive value could be determined was 13.0%, @entity320 detection rates varied from 0.1% to 1.9%. Dermoscopy was used in 78% of examinations with clinically suspected @entity320 ; full body skin examination was performed in 72% of the screenees. CONCLUSION: Although the population screened during Euromelanoma was relatively young, high rates of clinically suspected @entity320 were found. The efficacy of Euromelanoma could be improved by targeting high-risk populations and by better use of dermoscopy and full body skin examination.

The XXXX prevention campaign in Europe: characteristics and results of 2009 and 2010.

@entity1489 :: ('MESH:D012878', 'Disease') :: ['skin cancer'] @entity957 :: ('MESH:D002294', 'Disease') :: ['squamous cell carcinoma'] @entity320 :: ('MESH:D008545', 'Disease') :: ['melanoma', 'melanomas', 'Melanoma'] @entity1491 :: ('MESH:D002280', 'Disease') :: ['basal cell carcinoma']
@entity1489 :: (MESH:D012878,Disease) :: ['Euromelanoma skin cancer']
