Doctor’s Approach Introduces Breakthrough Melanoma Detection Device to its Practice

Jan. 24, 2013 - PRLog -- Doctor’s Approach Dermatology & Surgery is excited to be the only office in the Mid-Michigan area to incorporate the use MelaFind into our practice. MelaFind is the world’s first and only 100% objective, painless, non-invasive computer vision system that captures, displays and analyzes data from under the skin’s surface. Doctor’s Approach can now use MelaFind to gain more information about the growth patterns of irregular moles from under the skin’s surface. This helps detect melanoma in its most curable and treatable stages. It is FDA approved in the US.

Melanoma, is the most serious form of skin cancer, several risk factors for developing melanoma, including ultraviolet (UV) light exposure, moles, fair skin, freckling, light hair and family history of melanoma. According to American Cancer Society when detected in its earliest stages, melanoma is highly curable, it is the most common form of cancer for women ages 25-29, and the use of indoor tanning beds under the age of 35 increases the risk of developing melanoma by 75 percent.

Doctor’s Approach will introduce our new MelaFind computer system on January 28, 2013. The clinically proven MelaFind  looks at irregular moles and analyzes them using cutting-edge computer vision technology. With the click of a button, MelaFind provides information we at Doctor’s Approach can use when deciding whether or not to remove an irregular looking mole that they think could possibly be melanoma.

Dr. Marcy Street, Medical Director and Founder of Doctor’s Approach Dermatology in Okemos, MI, “This is a very important tool that dermatologist can use to help identify melanomas, that when caught early, have a very high cure rate.  We are excited about bringing this technology to patients in this area.”