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Episode 2 of Pharmanipulation invites Adewole S. Adamson MD, MPP, to discuss the relationship of sun exposure to melanoma, whether sunscreen actually prevents skin cancer, and the overdiagnosis of melanoma. Dr. Adamson is a board-certified dermatologist and an assistant professor in the department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin where he studies skin cancer, evidence-based medicine, and health policy. He is also the Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, and he serves as an assistant editor at JAMA Dermatology.
Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://georgetown.box.com/s/3bte8vynpulj33kv3qdtwdabamm2n9xx
To learn more about Dr. Adamson, please visit his website: https://adeadamson.com/
Dr. Adamson’s paper on Estimating Overdiagnosis of Melanoma Using Trends Among Black and White Patients in the U.S. is available here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle/2789995
Dr. Adamson’s paper on The Rapid Rise in Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses is available here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2019760?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed
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