Skin Cancer Clinic

Our practice offer Skin Cancer Screenings and Skin cancer clinical services to our patients. Learn more about our services below. Please note that there may be fee for our skin cancer services, please see our fees page for more information.

TOTAL BODY MOLE MAPPING  

The gold standard for skin cancer prevention

The difference between a detailed skin cancer screening process and a basic examination can literally be life or death.

SIASCOPE SKIN SCAN

Siascope Technology 

Croydon Medical Centre has an advanced melanoma screening tool utilising SIAscopy™ technology called Molemate.
The Molemate features include:

• Accuracy

• Non-invasive

• Rapid Results

• Painless

• Detailed Electronic Reports

SIAscopy™ combines a scanner and computer software. It understands the way that light interacts with the skin; the way it scatters or bounces, the amount absorbed by cells and other structures along with the different changes in wavelength or colour.

How does it work?

Spotscreen use multiple medical technologies to perform each assessment – this includes the use of a dermatoscope and a SIAscope Scanner with innovative ‘MoleMate’ analytics system.

This non-invasive system allows our certified Medical Practitioner to look up to 2mm underneath the surface of the skin. This significantly increase the ability to identify skin cancers in their early and more treatable stages.

The practitioner will use the device to emit light, which passes through the different layers of skin. As the light interacts with each layer of skin, the scanner is provided detailed information into the state of these layers.

From this information, detailed scans are produced which are then displayed in a digital format through the innovative analytics system.

Examples of images produced during a Spotscreen SIAscope mole scan:

Spotscreen’s experienced Medical Practitioner then interpret these scans to identify if the mole or spot is harmless or at a risk of being cancerous.

Any scans taken are saved and mapped to your individual patient file. Spotscreen will securely store these images which can then be used for comparison in future screenings with Spotscreen.

On the occasion a mole or spot presents as being suspicious, the doctor will be able to treat or refer you for treatment depending on circumstances

The SIAscope skin scan also assists in the management of non-melanoma (Basal Cell Carcinoma) and the images are a sharp focus resolution.  This is a non-invasive "Virtual ' skin biopsy to 2mm depth and analysis of melanin pigment, blood supply and collagen skin structure. 

Scanner Detection of Melanoma

Proof is in the Results

The technology has been evaluated in three clinical trials which has seen more than 1500 patients assessed with the system.

In a substantial UK primary care trial, the rate of Sensitivity (True Positives) and Specificity (True Negatives) were an amazing 94% and 83% respectively.

This compared very favourably to benchmark rates from General Practitioners using conventional techniques as results showed the rate of Sensitivity (True Positives) being 67% and Specificity (True Negatives) at 76%.