Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by echion on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:55PM
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What's the name of the laser procedure you had?
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by ThomPete on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:59PM
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Can't remember but I can find out. It had to be strapped on to me very precisely and they had a lot of issues with keeping it steady. Once it was one we could actually see the cells.
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by sungam on Thursday November 09, 2017 @06:08PM
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likely confocal microscopy
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by epmaybe on Thursday November 09, 2017 @08:41PM
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I just read today that in vivo confocal microscopy was used clinically in human patients. Do dermatologists do this, or is someone else operating the device? I've only used them in mice, very neat!
I have more than a thousand moles and is lucky to be at Sloan Memorial. They found my second one by pointing some laser onto the mole without biopsy and could see the malanoma there. I have 3d images of me and all sorts of things.
This sounds more like something I would need (given my high number of moles) if I am lucky enough that this third one either isn't a melanoma or early stage.
One thing to note out which I learned. Asymmetry needs to be understood a little different. I have a lot of asymmetric moles that are just fine. They can even grow and it will be fine as long as their internal network nodes grows the same (think of it as a vector image that will grow uniformly.