MELANOMA SKIN CANCER

Primary skin melanoma and skin cancers have been more prevalent in the pre-vious decades and therefore have become a very signifi cant public health prob-lem. Dermatologists of the Skin and Venereal Diseases Clinic of the University of Sarajevo Clinics Centre initiated the fi rst public preventive action called “Days of Fighting Melanoma “ in May . Th e objective of the campaign was to provide free dermatological examinations to all volunteers and to inform, through the me-dia, wider population on early signs and recognition of skin cancer and the impor-tance of sun protection. Th e total of citizens were examined clinically and with dermatoscope in the period between and May . Th e examination also in-cluded histological diagnoses: patients with confi rmed melanoma, with basal cell carcinoma and with spinocellular carcinoma. Th e results suggested a need for the expansion of the campaign to other towns in our country in order to dem-onstrate the importance of early detection of the disease and treatment options