Journal Of Investigative Dermatology

26 March 2013: In this podcast, Emilee Sandsmark speaks with Dr. Melody Eide, from the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, about the exclusion of non-melanoma skin cancer from US cancer registries, which inspired Dr. Eide to review billing claims and their correspondence to the language of actual pathology records. Electronic pathology reports provide accurate diagnosis, suggesting that their inclusion in a national database would improve understanding of the prevalence, diagnostics, and treatment of squamous and basal cell skin cancer.