Implementation of the prevention program for melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and other skin cancers and their preceding states in the Mazowieckie and Łódzkie provinces

The main objective of the Project is to implement the skin cancers prevention programme, which is aimed at increasing the knowledge and awareness of the target groups, patients and physicians, within skin cancers prevention and methods of nevus self-examination. The Project will lead to:

• increase in dissemination of knowledge of negative effects of ultraviolet radiation, including the risk of development of skin pre-cancer and cancer states, sun protection, nevus self-examination and dermatoscopic examination,
• change of habits related to UV exposure, decrease in the rate of skin burns and long-term suppression of the upward trend in the incidence of skin cancer
• dissemination and organisation of knowledge of skin cancer prevention among general practitioners, family doctors, medical educators and dermatologists.