To the Editor: Primary care skin cancer clinics continue to receive negative publicity. We have previously reported on the workload profile of one network of clinics.1 We report here the profile of clinical activity of the four MoleScan skin cancer clinics situated on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Between them, these clinics have been open for a total of 22 years, ranging from 2 years to nearly 9 years of operation.
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- 1. Wilkinson D, Askew DA, Dixon A. Skin cancer clinics in Australia: workload profile and performance indicators from an analysis of billing data. Med J Aust 2006; 184: 162-164. <MJA full text>
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Gordon Patrick is the founder and a director of MoleScan. He is also a practising clinician working in a MoleScan clinic. MoleScan made the data available for our study with no restriction on the analysis undertaken. The company viewed this letter for accuracy prior to submission, but had no influence on the data presented or their interpretation.