European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Skin cancer Early detection is vital United press International the warning signs of cancer can be As Plain As Iho mole on your Ace. Yet a study has round Hal physician Sas Well As won a Licals Ollen look she other Way lot whole year before getting a diagnosis Early detection is possible la Many cancers which respond to treatments Best during the easiest stages Bui the study showed physicians As Well As the Public wait too Long before heeding signs of deadly Lorms of skin cancer. During the course of one year lesions can change from curable tutors to tutors with a competence Lor metastasis or the ability to spread to other parts of the body said the study which reported delays of up to 12 months in diagnosis of some skin cancer cases. Melanoma Isu que because it is visible Early Whon it still can be cured later it is one of the most deadly of cancers with a five year survival rats of just 39 percent everyone recognizes late signs of Melanoma said Barrie Cass item director of the University of Pennsylvania s cancer control program in late stages a Melanoma is a very sick looking thing it s big and ugly and Black and sometimes Slicks Way up and is  she said. But if you Are going to wait until 1hcn, it s Way too late to give 1he patient any Chance of  the warning flags of Early malignant Melanoma changes in moles or new skin growths Are so innocuous they Are easily ignored. Vet the number of cases of the cancer is increasing swiftly rising 93 percent in the past eight years experts said for Many years in the United slates we have been aught to look or changes in moles Bull he specific changes we have been alerted to really Are the signs of tale disease Cassileth said. People Tiave not been alerted to signs of Early Melanoma which is unique in thai it is 100 percent curable in caught Early said Caas Lelh. Who directed Iho cancer control programs study of patient and physician responses reported in the March Issue of to journal of american Academy dermatology. Even physicians contributed to Treit men delays said the study. In 21 percent of the cases at least to months elapsed Between physicians observations of lesions and diagnosis four months elapsed in 13 percent of the cases. An average local time of one year passed from when patients themselves