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Article: Digital diagnosis: new tool for detecting skin cancer.(Innovations)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
- Author:
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There are tradeoffs to enjoying one's day in the sun. The obvious pleasures of outdoor recreation come at the cost of accelerated aging of the skin, formation of cataracts and other damage to the eyes, and increased risk of skin cancers. The deadliest of the skin cancers, melanoma, has been specifically tied to recreational exposure, as during summertime sunbathing and gardening. Although fatal when allowed to spread, melanoma is easily treated when diagnosed early. But traditional screening is time-consuming and labor-intensive, requiring examination of the entire skin for what may be tiny irregularities. Thus, it is underused.
However, recent advances may ...
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