Cent Eur J Public Health 2007, 15(2):71-73 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3411

Screenig Evaluation Systeme-Europe (SESy_Europe) Met Skin Cancer Screening

Vasiliki Karampoiki¹, Francisco Javier Rivas Flores², Hilal Altinoz³, Marzanna Chojnacka⁴, Irini Karentzou⁵, Mario Dambrosio⁶, Camelia Colichi⁷, Tamara Oxiuzova⁸, Eleni Kanavoura⁸, Berta Adelaide Maia da Silva Alves de Sousa⁹, Diana Ivanova¹, Jacopo Mauri¹⁰, Georgios Alexiou¹, Davide Mauri^1,11, Konstantinos Kamposioras⁸, Angeliki Maragkaki¹, Christina Peponi¹

¹ PACMeR sections of Dermatology, Oncology and Public Health, Athens, Greece

² San Rafael Hospital, Clinic Documentation, Madrid, Spain

³ SSK Sureyyapasa, Thoracic Disease Center, Istanbul, Turkey

⁴ Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Dept Radiation Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

⁵ Cologne University school of Medicine, Cologne, Germany

⁶ Multimedica Hospital, Dept. Oncology, Milan, Italy

⁷ Department of Medical Oncology, Institute of Oncology, Bucharest, Romania

⁸ Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

⁹ Department of Medical Oncology, Portuguese Oncology Institute (IPOPFG-EPE), Porto, Portugal

¹⁰ PACMeR, Engineering and Development section, Milan, Italy

¹¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Skin tumors are the most frequent malignancies in the white population worldwide and have reached the proportion of an epidemic disease. Since non-melanocytic skin cancers can be cured when timely detected, given that still malignant melanoma may have good prognosis if early diagnosed, and considering the key role of primary care in cancer screening advising and implementation, the international PACMeR study group (trial_01.3) adjourned SESy_Europe database in a version comprehensive of skin-malignancies screening indexing. The novel database provides standardized pre-codified translations of 2,331 parameters in eight languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish) and records the time elapsed from last skin examination, cause and frequency of skins examinations and stratifies skin cancer risk patterns by a systematic registering of risk factors.
A comprehensive indexing of skin cancer screening practices among European countries may in fact turn helpful in programming future health policy and tailoring interventions.

Keywords: skin cancer, melanoma, screening

Received: September 5, 2006; Revised: December 12, 2006; Accepted: December 12, 2006; Published: June 1, 2007  Show citation