MU Health Care dermatologists to offer free skin cancer screenings at state fair

Posted to On Campus by Dani Kass at 7:53 p.m., Aug. 4, 2011

University of Missouri Health Care dermatologists will offer free skin cancer screenings Monday, Aug. 15, at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, according to a news release.

The screenings will take place from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the MO-Ag Theater.

Karen Edison, chairwoman of the Department of Dermatology at MU Missouri Health Care, said this will be the 25th anniversary of the National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Screening Program through the American Academy of Dermatology.

“The goal of this program, which on a local level is part of our commitment to community outreach, is to save lives,” she said in the news release. “We have no doubt that there are individuals alive today because they received skin cancer screening. In many cases, early detection is an important factor in surviving skin cancer.”

The screenings are free and open to the public.