British Society for Dermatological Surgery: Summaries of Papers.

The article presents the summaries of papers related to dermatological surgery. The reported frequencies of dermatological malignancies in Great Britain population suggests an incidence of 125 basal cell carcinomas, 27 squamous cell carcinomas and 7 malignant melanomas per 100 000. Another study reports that the number of patients attending the researchers' melanoma screening clinic since its inception in 1997 has increased fourfold. This is in contrast to the number of melanomas diagnosed, which has remained constant. During that time, 15000 patients have attended and 500 melanomas have been diagnosed; 18 melanomas have been missed.