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What is skin monitoring?
Skin monitoring is the process of improving personal awareness of changes in color, size, shape, elevation and other features of moles and pigmented skin spots that can signal early skin cancer and melanoma.
Why monitor your skin?
Skin cancer is almost 100% curable if diagnosed and treated in its early stages. Skin cancer and melanoma incidence continues to rise, but these disfiguring and potentially fatal cancers are highly curable if diagnosed and treated early. Diagnosis is ony possible with a visit to the dermatologist - an early visit to the determatologist is possible if you notice mole changes and make an appointment. Clearly, personal vigilance is an important factor in skin cancer diagnosis, treatment and cure.
Who should monitor their skin?
With skin cancer incidences increasing 6% per year, and a projected 1 in 5 people* in the U.S. developing some form of skin cancer in his/her lifetime, everyone should monitor his/her skin and see a dermatologist regularly.
*American Academy Of Dermatology, Public Resources 2002.
What is the skin monitoring procedure?
The VisiDerm Skin Monitoring System is a convenient and confidential way to monitor your skin. The process is quite simple, on a single transparent sheet, using the marker provided in the kit, write in:
Individual user’s name
Physical location of mole being recorded
Date of first measure
With the transparent sheet as an overlay on the mole, trace the mole in detail for the first measure. Refer to this numeric color and features guide when completing the APPEARANCE area. Remove the transparent sheet from the mole, inspect the mole, then circle or fill in the numbers for each color and feature that represents the appearance of the mole during the first measure. Repeat the process periodically to create a skin monitoring log. After a subsequent measure is taken, compare those results to the first baseline recording, and you may notice a progression or change in the color, size, shape or features of the mole. A dermatologist should be consulted immediately.
Completed Visiderm sheets can be filed in the box and stored in your medicine cabinet to serve as a daily reminder to perform self examinations and to see a dermatologist regularly.
Why use the VisiDerm Skin Monitoring System?
To detect even subtle changes in moles, that without a comparison method could have gone visually unnoticed. The patented VisiDerm Skin Monitoring System allows patients and doctors to monitor the color size, shape, and elevation of moles or pigmented spots. Sequential recordings create a documented history and a comparison method that can alert the user to mole changes. Because of the transparent monitoring sheets, patients can provide the physician with an immediate history of a mole. The physician can also use the sheets in-office to record a patient's mole details for future reference and comparisons.
Please Note:
This product does not diagnose or treat skin cancer or recommend how often the user should perform self examinations or see a dermatologist – only a physician can. Visiderm serves only as a method to help the user notice change or progression in moles or pigmented spots that may signal skin cancer, and alert the user of the immediate need to see a dermatologist.
NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A PHYSICIAN. SEE A DERMATOLOGIST FOR REGULAR CHECKUPS AND BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT.
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