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Announcement
"Patients' Choice Award" by Vitals.com
Dr. Sam Naficy has been awarded the "Patients' Choice Award" by Vitals.com - a website dedicated to rating the quality of physicians across the country. Out of 720,000 physicians, only 5% received this honor.
Skin Cancer Screening
To understand why screening for skin cancer is important one needs to look no further than some of the statistics compiled by the American Academy of Dermatology.
- More than 1 million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year
- Current estimates are that 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime
- 1 in 58 men and women will be diagnosed with melanoma during their lifetime
- One American dies of melanoma almost every hour (every 62 minutes)
- In 2008, over 8,000 deaths were attributed to melanoma
- More than 75 percent of skin cancer deaths are from melanoma
If you have a personal history or family history of skin cancer it is highly recommended that you have a skin cancer-screening visit once a year during which a visual inspection of your entire skin will be performed.
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