Clinical trial · Interventional
Targeted Melanoma Detection With Skin Self-Examination During COVID-19 Restricted Physician Access
Targeted Melanoma Detection With Skin Self-examination: Leveraging the Mammogram Encounter
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The purpose of this study is to reduce melanoma mortality by improving early detection of melanoma with skin self-examination (SSE) among people who self-identify as being at risk and seek care for a concerning mole. Because women are more likely than men to perform SSE, women who are engaged in health promotion by having a recent screening mammogram are the focus of this research. Self-management of melanoma detection with SSE depends on ready access to dermatologists when a concerning mole is detected. In March 2020, the Illinois stay at home order (COVID-19) prohibited non-essential health care, including screening mammography and dermatology office-based care, and both are expected to remain limited until fall 2020. This submission explores a) the effectiveness of targeted melanoma detection (TMD) among women, who identify their risk of having a melanoma, learn to perform SSE, and perform SSE, and b) the effectiveness of adhesive patch-based home sample collection for genomic analysis to rule out melanoma in moles identified by women (who received the intervention) as concerning will be explored.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melanoma | Melanoma | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.98 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active control:Healthy Living | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| SSE educational intervention | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- SSE educational intervention
- description
- Women participants receive a SSE brochure and three monthly reminders to perform SSE. In the second month, women select goals for SSE.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: SSE educational intervention
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Active control: Healthy Living
- description
- Women participants receive a Healthy Living brochure and three monthly reminders to perform the following activities of healthy living: get quality sleep, walk briskly for 30 min, eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. In the second month, women select goals for healthy living.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Active control:Healthy Living
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult women (aged 18 and older) with no upper age limit, who had a screening mammogram from January 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020. * Able to read English * Vision enough to read a newspaper * Self-perception of their potential melanoma risk * Willing to perform SSE either alone or with a skin check partner * Willing to complete monthly surveys for 3 months and receive monthly text messages to personal mobile phone * Have home Internet access and phone with ability to take a picture of a mole * Have access to Federal Express or US Postal Service Express Mail to send mole self-sampling kits * Willing to allow the research team access to their electronic health record to abstract physician assessment of concerning moles, biopsy results and treatment * Willing to provide up-to-date email address, mailing address and telephone number Inclusion criteria of skin check partner, who may be a man or a woman, to have mole self-sampled * Male or female over the age of 18 years * Able to read English * Vision enough to read a newspaper Exclusion Criteria: * Male * Female under the age of 18 * Unable to read English
References
Publications (2)
- BACKGROUNDRobinson JK, Reavy R, Mallett KA, Turrisi R. Remote partner assisted skin self-examination skills training of melanoma survivors and their partners. Australas J Dermatol. 2019 Feb;60(1):e80-e82. doi: 10.1111/ajd.12877. Epub 2018 Jul 10. No abstract available. PMID 30773613
- BACKGROUNDRobinson JK, Wayne JD, Martini MC, Hultgren BA, Mallett KA, Turrisi R. Early Detection of New Melanomas by Patients With Melanoma and Their Partners Using a Structured Skin Self-examination Skills Training Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Dermatol. 2016 Sep 1;152(9):979-85. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.1985. PMID 27367303