Rustad Dermatology, Lincoln, NE

Rustad Dermatology Announces KLKN HealthNET Partnership

March 18, 2008 (Lincoln, NEB) – As part of our efforts to address the skin care needs of our community, Rustad Dermatology has partnered with KLKN Television’s HealthNET team. This important, collaborative effort with the station will create awareness and understanding of various diseases of the skin, also focusing on our community’s individual needs with regard to skin aging. Rustad Dermatology applauds KLKN for their effort to provide the best health care information available to its viewing public, and we look forward to working with them to disseminate technically-based public health and patient education information tailored to the needs of our community. Look for informative videos on KLKN’s website.

For additional information, contact Michelle Schlegel.

Rustad Dermatology Partnering with Communities to Detect Skin Cancer Early

May marks thirteenth annual Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month®

LINCOLN, Neb. (April 9, 2008) – The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) has designated May as Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month® with the first Monday in May designated as Melanoma Monday or “National Skin Self-Examination Day.” Melanoma Monday kicked off the AAD program designed to raise awareness about skin health and encourage Americans to begin a life long habit of regular skin self-examinations. Read the entire press release

News - Free Skin Cancer Screening Clinics

Rustad Dermatology offers free skin cancer detection and mole evaluation clinics to groups of twenty-five or more from hospitals, churches, schools, service clubs, government offices and companies. These clinics can be held on site in your facility, in a Lancaster County health mobile unit or even in our office. We merely need an isolated room and a waiting area. The examination usually evaluates exposed areas such as faces, scalps, necks, arms and legs. We most often view backs, abdomens and chests as well if an individual so desires. In 2007, these examinations produced the discovery of one melanoma per week. Lives are saved when diagnoses are made early.

More than one million Americans develop skin cancer each year and over ten thousand die. Eight thousand will die of melanoma. The only real, effective treatment of melanoma is early detection and proper initial treatment. The ability to recognize skin cancer early, in a stage when it can be treated most effectively, relates to the specific training and experience of the examiner. During the last forty years, tens of thousands of moles have been examined and over one thousand melanomas have been treated by our staff.

The need for major procedures and the incidence of death from skin cancer can be dramatically reduced if people will just come to be examined and go for treatment early.