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Hi! That's really useful tool!

I wish it also explained the decision making process, how to understand from the picture what is the right answer.

I'm really getting lost between melanoma and seborrheic keratosis / nevus.

I went through ~120 pictures, but couldn't learn to distinguish those.

Also, the guide in the burger menu leads to a page that doesn't exist: https://molecheck.info/how-to-recognise-skin-cancer



This is very helpful feedback. I will add some more information to help with the diagnosis and add an article in the burger menu with detailed explanation.

Being honest I didn't expect anyone apart from a few of may patients to use the app and certainly did not expect front page HN!


Hey!

Thanks for making this! A bit more polish and this is something I’d make sure everyone in my family has played with.

Imagine a world where every third person is able to recognise worrying skin lesions early on.


I'm not a doctor, but there's an ABCDE[0] rule of thumb to spot signs of skin cancer:

Asymmetry: One half of the spot is unlike the other half.

Border: The spot has an irregular, scalloped, or poorly defined border.

Color: The spot has varying colors from one area to the next

Diameter: melanomas are usually greater than 6 millimeters, or about the size of a pencil eraser

Evolving: Changing in size, shape, color, or new symptoms (itching, bleeding)

[0] https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/skin-cancer/find/at-risk...


Also came to the same conclusion. I want a mode where 50% of the set are melanomas, and the other 50% are “brown benign things”.


Will add this in next version!




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