Dermatoscopy & Skin Cancer Screening

Dermatoscopy & Skin Cancer Screening

A dermatoscope magnifies and illuminates a lesion so structures beneath the surface become visible. It substantially improves accuracy in deciding what needs a biopsy.

What it helps distinguish

• Benign moles from suspicious ones — reducing unnecessary procedures.
• Early melanoma — identifying features not visible to the eye alone.
• Change over time — documented images compared at follow-up.

When a lesion does need sampling, biopsy is performed in the office and results return to the provider who examined you.