What are the risk factors of mole screening?
Mole screening is only a diagnostic service. It is not a treatment for skin cancer. Using a process called computer-aided dermoscopy, The Skin Clinic checks unusual moles for malignant melanoma only. Mole screening prices increase if The Skin Clinic takes digital images of more than 10 unusual moles. Dermoscopy provides a risk score for each mole that is examined. The maximum score is 10 and the higher the score, the more suspicious the mole. Some higher scores may require more detailed analysis by The Skin Clinic and its consultants after your visit. Although dermoscopy is statistically very accurate, like all medical screening systems, it will very occasionally be wrong. It is possible (but unlikely) that it will predict a malignant melanoma when there is none present, or fail to identify a malignant melanoma which is already present. The only known method of confirming the existence of malignant melanoma is by excision and histology. Malignant melanoma can develop at any time and th
