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For FMG employees
Skin screening
FMG employees can undergo skin screening by a dermatologist several times a year to ensure that potentially cancerous abnormalities are spotted early.
Prevention is the best medicine
Especially people with numerous pigmentation abnormalities and liver spots on their skin should not miss this opportunity to undergo skin screening. Since the 1980s there has been a substantial increase in the number of skin cancer patients. One reason for this trend is excessive and above all unprotected exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet rays over a period of many years.
Fortunately, what appears dramatic at first glance turns out to be relatively harmless on closer examination.
- Many people notice suspicious skin changes at an early stage and go to a doctor in time. Fortunately, the most common form of skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma. These carcinomas hardly grow or metastasize at all, can usually be removed in an outpatient procedure. For the patient the treatment is thus completed successfully in most cases.
Free skin screening
The situation is different with malignant melanoma, however. Only with an early diagnosis is there a good chance of recovering from this aggressive form of skin cancer. As a special service, the regional public-sector health insurer AOK Bayern, in cooperation with our health management team and our doctors at MediCare, offers all FMG employees insured in the public system the opportunity to undergo free skin screening for early diagnosis of skin cancer. This full-body check-up takes about 10 minutes and is performed by a dermatologist. Dates for skin screening check-ups are published in FMG communication media well in advance.
