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Dermoscopy

Dermoscopy is the use of a special skin microscope. It allows the doctor to see beneath the skins surface. The ability to see elements deeper within the skin provides the doctor with more information to make a decision regarding a suspicious skin lesion or mole.

Molescan has developed their own brand of dermatoscope and accompanying software that works as a second-opinion to the doctors, improving accuracy and efficiency. This technology also has the ability to store images of lesions on your patient file, allowing for exact comparisons to be made in follow-up consultations. As changes to a mole or lesion are one of the biggest indicators of skin cancer, this function of the technology is invaluable to skin cancer detection.

Digital dermoscopy or computerised dermoscopy is the use of computer technology further assisting the full skin check. Computerised dermoscopy allows images to be saved for future comparisons. Software programs are also used for this comparison. On the overall, providing even more information to a doctor for even more accurate decision making.

The first aim of this is to allow the very early detection of skin cancer. Dermoscopy has been shown to increasing the sensitivityof detection of early melanomas to 84.6% vs 60.9% without dermoscopy.

The second aim is to increase specifity to prevent unnecessary cutting out of a skin lesion or mole that then turns out to be normal or not a cancer.

* Doliaitis et al ARCH Derm 2005 (141) 1008-14.

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