{"id":304770,"date":"2024-05-16T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:18:20","slug":"who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should be screened for skin cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Collin Costello checks for skin cancer. Credit: Mayo Clinic Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. Each year, more than 6 million adults are treated for skin cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Collin Costello, a Mayo Clinic dermatologist, says anyone can get skin cancer, but some people are at higher risk. So how often should you be screened? A skin check by a dermatologist usually only takes a few minutes, but that short time spent in the doctor&#8217;s office could <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Collin Costello checks for skin cancer. Credit: Mayo Clinic Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. Each year, more than 6 million adults are treated for skin cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Collin Costello, a Mayo Clinic dermatologist, says anyone can get skin cancer, but <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/who-should-be-screened-for-skin-cancer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}