As one who as recently as last January underwent surgery for malignant melanoma I strongly disagree. I see a dermatologist twice a year now.
DH had a spot on his forehead that turned out to be basal cell. His GP removed it and said nothing about screening. DH changed doctors the next year. The new guy said, "WHAT!? You're blonde and blue-eyed, had a BSC, and haven't been getting screened??" So DH went to a dermatologist. She spotted a tiny but suspicious freckle on his bicep, took it out for testing, and it turned out to be melanoma. Did a "shark-bite" surgery and the borders came out clean, so case closed on that it seems. He did screenings every 3 months for awhile, then every 6 months, now he's down to once a year. I started getting screened, too.
I hate to think what might have happened had that melanoma not been spotted!