A Skin Cancer App Just Saved This Woman’s Life
According to Yahoo Beauty, November 23, 2016 Apps can do a lot of things: figure out how many miles you just ran, tell you what song is playing, and now, apparently, diagnose skin cancer. That’s what a New Zealand woman discovered after her app told her a skin discoloration on her leg was melanoma. Marie Stantiall used the SkinVision app, which analyzes pictures of the spots on a person’s skin within 20 seconds and determines whether the person is at a low, medium, or high risk of skin cancer. According to SkinVision.com, the app uses a dermatologist-tested algorithm that checks a person’s skin for irregularities in color, texture, and shape. (The app is currently not available in the U.S. but will be coming soon.) Stantiall tells the New Zealand Herald that she initially put her phone down when the red “high risk” alert first appeared. “I had that instant reaction of denial, but I kept going back to look at it until I knew I couldn’t ignore it,” she ...