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Pooled diagnostic accuracy is high in specialist settings, but performance falls on Fitzpatrick IV–VI skin and on smartphone images, and most studies never report skin tone at all.
Most skin cancers rarely kill; melanoma, about 1 percent of them, causes most of the deaths. There is no proven benefit from routine whole-body screening — which puts the focus on changing moles.
SPF measures how much ultraviolet exposure it takes to burn, not how long you can stay outside. The randomised cancer-prevention evidence rests largely on 1,621 adults followed for more than a decade.
Integrated risk scores combine polygenic data with conventional risk factors. A readiness review lists what would have to exist first — and separately, 36% of older Australians had no skin check at all last year.
Fifty-five per cent of surveyed cricketers over 70 reported a basal cell carcinoma. A 29% response rate and self-reported diagnoses mean the number cannot be read as a rate — which is the finding.