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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: mole mapping + melanoma + people  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Melanoma concerns on the rise as rates climb for women, remain ...
Examiner.com - Jul 24, 2008
But in January, Peterson, a blonde, fair-skinned 18-year-old, was diagnosed with melanoma ? the deadliest form of skin cancer ? and had a small, black mole ...
Skin Mole Analysis Using the Internet - A New Service by Opticom ...
PR Web (press release), WA - Jul 8, 2008
MoleSense can be used as a part of a mole mapping procedure, in which the size, shape and location of moles over the entire body are mapped. ...
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The Transformation Rate of Moles (Melanocytic Nevi) Into Cutaneous Melanoma A Population-Based … -
H Tsao, C Bevona, W Goggins, T Quinn - Archives of Dermatology, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... For young people with innumerable moles and no ... to curb the rise in melanoma have
centered ... changes, diameter increase) campaign and mole mapping approaches rely ...

The use of mole-mapping diagrams to increase skin self-examination accuracy -
V Chiu, E Won, M Malik, MA Weinstock - Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2006 - Elsevier
... a key factor in motivating people to perform ... practice and, hence, improving early
detection of melanoma. ... active role in SSE through mole-mapping diagrams may ...

Skin Self-Examination in Patients at High Risk for Melanoma: A Pilot Study -
DL Phelan, SA Oliveria, PJ Christos, SW Dusza, AC … - Oncology Nursing Forum, 2003 - Onc Nurs Society
... Canfield Scientific, Inc., Fairfield, NJ) is a mole-map- ping system that ... The main
difficulty that people experience with self-detection of melanoma is a ...

[PDF] What Motivates Men Age> 50 Years to Participate in a Screening Program for Melanoma? -
M Janda, P Youl, JB Lowe, P Baade, M Elwood, I … - Cancer, 2006 - eprints.qut.edu.au
... involved in presentation of older people with thick ... clinics within a community-based
melanoma screening program. ... imaging: evaluation of a mole-mapping program. ...
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Management of Melanoma
P Indicators, MD Pregnancy, LN Mapping - medscape.com
... end of the year 2000, 1 in 75 people in the ... Serial photos, or "mole-mapping," may
also be beneficial to these ... there is no increased risk of melanoma for small ...
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[CITATION] The Transformation Rate of Moles (Melanocytic Nevi) Into Cutaneous Melanoma
APB Estimate - Arch Dermatol, 2003
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Transformation of Moles into Melanoma -
GJ Hruza - Journal Watch Dermatology, 2003 - Mass Med Soc
... transform; however, even in older people, the risk ... Detailed photography and mole
mapping should be reserved ... patients with known elevated melanoma risks, such ...
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Textbook of melanoma Edited by John F. Thompson, Donald L. Morton and Bin BR Kroon
D Rosin - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2004 - Elsevier
... fastest increasing malignancy in Caucasian people today. ... covers a definitive subject
with respect to melanoma. ... glaring omissions it is that mole mapping is not ...

Risk assessment and early detection of skin cancers -
M Maguire-Eisen - Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2003 - Elsevier
... with the risk factor, compared with people without the ... those with multiple nevi or
a history of melanoma. Mole mapping requires multiple (24 to 34) stan- dard ...

[PDF] Early Melanoma Detection -
L Series, I Dermatology - molemapper.net
... It makes sense that people who grow a lot of benign neoplasms have an in creased
risk of having a malignant neo plasm. ... Mole and melanoma anxiety is out ...

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"Mole mapping" may help people spot melanoma

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Few people follow experts' advice to regularly inspect their skin for signs of cancer, and even fewer do it thoroughly and accurately. But a new study suggests that a simple diagram of the body could help.

Researchers found that people who "mapped" their moles on a drawing of the torso were better able to catch new growths than their peers who relied on visual memory alone. In this case, the new growths were merely computer manipulations of digital photographs of the study participants' backs. But in real life, a simple mole-mapping diagram could help people find melanoma early, according to Dr. Martin A. Weinstock, the study's senior author.

The best way to detect melanoma is through regular, thorough self-exams of the skin, looking for new growths or changes in the size, shape or color of existing moles. But most people neither regularly nor thoroughly inspect their skin, Weinstock told Reuters Health.

"It's there to see," he said, "but you have to look, and you need to do it systematically."

To help people do that, Weinstock and his colleagues at Brown University Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island, came up with the idea of "mole mapping" -- giving patients a simple drawing of the body on which they can mark the location of existing moles, then hopefully catch any new growths when they arise.

For the current study, reported in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the researchers gave 88 men and women instructions on how to do a skin self-exam, then asked them all to perform one before a follow-up visit two weeks later.

Half of the study participants also received a diagram of the back to help them document their moles. The rest served as a comparison group.

When they returned for their follow-up visit, participants were shown digital photos of their backs that had been taken at their initial visit. They were told that some pictures had been manipulated and some had not; their task was to identify what, if any, changes had been made in each photo.

In the end, 52 percent of the diagram group correctly assessed their photos, versus 33 percent of the comparison group. In instances where a skin growth had been added to the photo, 60 percent of the diagram group caught it, while, again, only 33 percent of the comparison group gave an accurate judgment.

A thorough skin exam includes using full-length and hand mirrors to see the back of the body, and inspecting easily forgotten areas like the scalp, the soles of the feet and the skin between the toes.

Ideally, skin self-exams should be performed once a month, Weinstock said. When melanoma is caught in its earliest stages, he noted, the disease has a 95 percent survival rate. The survival odds plummet, however, once the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.

SOURCE: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, August 2006.

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Plastic surgeons have new device for midface lifts

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A device used to help plastic surgeons perform lifts of the midface area produces good results, according to the results of a pilot study.

The device, called the Endotine ST, is used to stabilize the soft tissue in the cheekbone area after the surgeon has separated it from the ligaments connecting it to the bone and lifted it into a new position. It attaches to soft tissue with tiny blunt-tipped tines, after which two "leashes" are sutured into the tissue to anchor it in place. The device is then absorbed into the body over several months, and completely disintegrates, according to animal studies.In the July/August issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, Dr. James Newton of Stanford University Medical Center in California reports on the results of midface lifts using the device in 10 patients. At the time of the study, Newton served on the physician advisory board of Coapt Systems, Inc., in Palo Alto, the company that makes the Endotine ST.

Nine of the 10 patients reported significant improvements in their appearance by six months after the procedure, Newton reports. One patient stated that the procedure did not improve her appearance at all; this could have been due to a tear in the suture used to anchor the Endotine ST's leash, which would have allowed the soft tissue to drop to its original position, he suggests. Using two sutures rather than one for each leash appears to have alleviated that problem, Newton writes.

Patients had less major swelling and nerve weakness than is typically seen with traditional face-lifts, which use sutures to anchor soft tissue, according to Newton. They did experience some tenderness and swelling of the cheek area in the weeks after the procedure. One patient developed a paralysis of a facial nerve that disappeared by three months after the procedure. None of the patients had infections or skin irregularities.The main benefit of the procedure is a redistribution of the volume of the fat pads over the cheeks, so the procedure is particularly appropriate for patients with sagging in this area, he notes.The device also reduces the risk that a physician will accidentally entrap a nerve in a suture, Newton said.

"The adjustability and decreased risk of nerve entrapment to the overlying soft tissues makes the Endotine ST device another option for safe and secure stabilization of a properly mobilized midface," he concludes.
 
 
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