The world’s first ‘remote’ photographic screening service to check moles for skin cancer “Professor Jonathan Blackledge, Stokes Professor at DIT, has launched a high-tech test that enables life-threatening types of skin cancers to be identified using a mobile phone image! Moletest is the world’s first ‘remote’ photographic screening service to check moles for skin cancer – both malignant and non-malignant – with results available in less than 24 hours. The mole checking service has been designed to empower consumers using a simple traffic light approach, green is a ‘normal’ lesion, amber a ‘borderline’ lesion with potentially unpredictable biological behaviour, and red a potentially ‘cancerous’ one. Both amber and red results should be acted upon with a recommendation to seek medical advice. All you need to do is register and upload a 5MP image or better of the suspect mole to Moletest’s website – this can even be taken on a mobile phone – pay a screening fee and get your results.” Read more at
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