Diagnosing Skin Cancer Without Biopsy

Its an invention that researchers say could radically change how doctors find skin cancer. The hand-held non-invasive cancer scanner diagnoses skin lesions on a patient, avoiding painful unnecessary biopsies.

One in three people in the United States will get Basal Cell or Squamous Cell cancer, and deadly melanoma cancer kills 7,000 people each year.

For years, doctors have cut out or biopsied trouble-spots to test for cancer, but researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, are developing the first device of its kind to painlessly diagnose skin cancer.

Barb Cramer has the story in this Vanderbilt Medical Center video news release.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• skin
• cancer
• vanderbilt
• medical
• research
• biopsy
• Squamous
• Basal
• Cell
• melanoma

[ataribandit]

This looks great, but it's next to impossible to find out how to get this service more than 1 year after this video has been published. No one at Vanderbilt seems to know anything about this technology. Anyone have any idea?

[VanderbiltHealthNews]

@ataribandit - You can contact Dr. Darrell Ellis, as he is the one interviewed in the video. The number at the end of the video is 615-322-6485 or you can email him. Ask for his email when you call.

[B1N4RYGH0ST]

I wish I'd known about this before having a punch biopsy for Nodular Basal Cell Cancer, I had a Nasolabial Flap and the doctors aren't even sure they got everything, I've to go back to the hospital in three months time. But should it flare up again, I've to disregard my appointment and go straight back to the plastics team. And on top of all that, we're in Solar Max.