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- The Skin Cancer Foundation Provides Record Number of Skin Cancer Screenings in 2024
  Our Destination Healthy Skin mobile screening and education program provided a record number of free skin cancer screenings in 2024. Over the course of six months, 68 physician volunteers performed 2,439 screenings and identified 1,009 potential skin cancers and precancers, including 86 melanomas.
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