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Photographic Surveillance: a New and Practical Intervention Strategy
Unique to the Melanoma Surveillance Clinic is photographic surveillance, a procedure in which a specialist physician compares to photographic baseline each and every visible mole and all visible anatomic sites on the skin. This comparison is made during periodic surveillance examinations. Photographic baseline consists of pictures of the total skin surface. These pictures consist of approximately 36 poses, taken by the Rush Photo Group in their professional studio within the Medical Center.
Photographic surveillance helps physicians and patients focus on lesions at highest risk, namely moles that appear to be new or changing compared to photographic baseline. So unnecessary surgery may be avoided for moles that are deemed to be benign in appearance and stable photographically. Photographic surveillance examinations are conducted at four- to 12-month intervals, depending on the perceived degree of melanoma risk.
Photographic surveillance, combined with monthly partner/family-assisted examinations and self-examinations, facilitates the detection of new moles or changing moles that could be melanoma in an early and curable phase of development. Melanoma that is surgically removed in an early phase of development, before cancer cells have had a chance to spread, is tantamount to cure.
Patients who are most likely to benefit from the procedure of photographic surveillance have one or more of the historical or physical traits listed above.
Getting Started on Photographic Surveillance
Patients wishing to take advantage of the Photographic Surveillance Clinic require a screening examination by a dermatologist to assess melanoma risk and the need for photographic surveillance.
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