White skin cancer is the most common tumor disease, black skin cancer one of the deadliest. To ensure that both types of cancer are detected early, Austrian doctors have developed a smartphone app that scans suspicious areas of skin and displays the risk in the traffic light colors of green, yellow and red.
The app identified 5,000 cases of skin cancer in Austria in early 2021, potentially saving lives, reported Michael Tripolt of the Graz University Clinic for Dermatology and Venereology. If a melanoma (black skin cancer) is discovered and treated before it has grown more than a millimeter deep into the skin, the chance of recovery is more than 95 percent. However, in advanced stages, the patient’s chances of survival would decrease drastically.
According to a clinical study in Meduni Graz, the SkinScreener app, developed by Tripolt and colleagues at the Styrian start-up company “medaia”, detects “clinically relevant skin tumors”, i.e. white and black skin cancers, with 98 percent certainty, according to the doctor.
To do this, users need to take a photo with the mobile phone camera from a distance of about 15 centimeters, the artificial intelligence of the mobile phone app then evaluates the photos and indicates the risk of a malicious skin change in the traffic light colors. Depending on the result, you must immediately go to the dermatologist, otherwise you will be reassured, it said.
The app is free to test (two scans), regular use costs costs.
Source: Krone
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