I recently read a press release from a company that did a good job reminding people about the outdated methods that skin cancer screenings still rely upon.

They wrote:

[each year more than 60,000 Americans] will have been diagnosed with melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. When early detection is key to survival, thorough and accurate skin cancer screenings become one’s first line of defense. But what do you do if you discover today’s standard screening isn’t as efficient and reliable as it could be? …you seek out a better way.

Agreed.

They went on to tout their newest technology, in the form of a cordless digital imaging device that uses LED lighting and a fixed-zoom lens to produce consistent, reliable images during skin cancer screenings.  I’m happy for them, and happy to have a little competition because that can only help to raise awareness and offer more than just the old “naked eye exams” and improve the prognosis for those with a melanoma diagnosis.

And I also have to say this is what MoleSafe has offered for years – both in New Zealand and Australia, and finally with increasing popularity in the United States.  Only MoleSafe takes it farther, by offering the world’s only complete melanoma early detection and surveillance program. In addition, for locations unable to provide the MoleSafe program, or for teaching practices, or even in cases where physicians only have a couple of areas of concern, MoleSafe’s New Zealand partner recently released a streamlined upgraded program.

MoleSafe’s new dermoscopic camera for melanoma screenings offers optimum simplicity, consistency and digital quality.

Really big news?

This new program will be used for the first time in MoleSafe’s newest location opening soon at a University location in New York. (Details to come!)

MORE Big News?

MoleSafe has always been a tireless advocate of ways to better enable physicians to find, analyze and document lesions.  And we’ve added another new tool to help do just that. In my last post, I mentioned the recent conference I attended of the International Dermoscopy Society.  Well, we’re honored that MoleSafe was considered to be the “gold standard” by so many presenting researchers and physicians.  They were, quite honestly, “blown away” by the newest of our products:

We unveiled a brand new touch-screen at the Barcelona conference, a tool that will revolutionize the workflow for dermatologists in their practice.

The screen is ideally mounted on the wall directly over the patient’s exam table.  Then, just like sliding images on an iPhone — or like they do on CNN these days! — the doctor simply has to touch the panel to advance images, and can then easily show and educate the patient on what he or she is reviewing, and what the patient should be mindful of keeping an eye on as well.

Plus, by incorporating the MoleSafe proprietary View technology software right into the flat touchscreen computer, it enables the doctor to look at the images, then look directly at the suspect mole, without having to go to a desktop computer and review records.  It’s all together, and all there in spectacular, hi-res digital detail…truly helping workflow and patient communication.

We are truly excited by all advances in our field, and only hope to embrace more newcomers, because that’s what it will take to keep opening eyes and demonstrating that there really is a better way to screen for and detect melanoma early.