# OnCo record idea-prev-melanoma-ai-thick-melanoma-metric (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-melanoma-ai-thick-melanoma-metric/>
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  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-prev-melanoma-ai-thick-melanoma-metric" ;
  schema:name "Judge skin cancer AI by the thick melanomas it prevents, not the thin ones it finds"@en ;
  schema:description "Melanoma diagnoses have soared while deaths barely changed, a sign of overdiagnosis. AI skin apps should be judged on whether dangerous thick melanomas fall, not how many spots they flag."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-melanoma-ai-thick-melanoma-metric/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq099> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-ai-validation/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-welch-j-natl-cancer-inst/> .