Skin tumours including melanoma

The NICE clinical guideline on skin tumours outlines how healthcare services for people with skin tumours should be organised. The key recommendations are: - Cancer networks should establish two levels of multidisciplinary teams to care for patients. - Patients with a precancerous lesion should eit ...

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The NICE clinical guideline on skin tumours outlines how healthcare services for people with skin tumours should be organised. The key recommendations are:

- Cancer networks should establish two levels of multidisciplinary teams to care for patients.
- Patients with a precancerous lesion should either be treated by their GP or referred.
- The care of patients with low-risk basal cell carcinoma may be managed by doctors in the community or at a local hospital.
- Patients who need specialist diagnosis should be referred to a doctor trained to diagnose skin cancer.
- Skin cancer teams should work to agreed protocols.
- Protocols should cover the management of care for people in high-risk or special groups.
- Follow-up care should be agreed.
- All patients and carers should have access to high quality information.
- Information should be collected.
- More research should be done.

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