Allina Health is bringing back a lifesaving service with its free skin cancer screenings after a pause because of the pandemic.
The appointments are part of Melanoma Monday, a time to stress the importance of screening for melanoma during Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Allina Health said appointments are fully booked.
“We’ve been able to find and capture so many people that would not have been able to get cancer screenings otherwise,” Dr. Liz Farhat, Allina Health’s lead dermatologist, said.
Skin cancer is 95% curable when detected early, according to Allina Health.
The health care system said Minnesota has one of the highest rates of melanoma in the nation, and it’s also one of the states that has seen both an increase in melanoma cases and death rates.
