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2007 Accumulated “Screening Safari” Statistics

 

May 27 to December 31, 2007

 

Total # of screenings:  3

 

Number of DRs.:  9

 

Total hours on site:   66 - in screening donated

 

Total literature dispersed:   1,100     (does not include mailings)

 

Total samples sunscreen:   1,300 plus Schering/Plough Coppertone

 

Total # of patients seen:  222

 

Total referred: 67    

 

Total Biopsied:  29      

 

SK: 40    AK: 46    DN: 17   CN: 2    BC: 14    SC: 2

 

Melanoma: 4           Other: 36

 

 

Free Skin Cancer Screenings

 

Screening Safari Statistics Accumulated

 

1997 - 2007

 

 

Total  Screened:  5,770

 

Total Referred for follow-up:  1,765 = 31% of total screened

 

Total to be Biopsied:  822 = 14% of total screened

 

AK: 810   DN:  433   CN:  284   BC:  295   SC: 50   M:  46

 

These statistics have been accumulated by:

The William S. Graham Foundation for Melanoma Research, Inc.

The “Billy Foundation”

through their Screening Safari that take place at public events across the United States 

and have been done by Board Certified Dermatologists doing a “visual only” exam. 

 

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