Useful information on skin cancer, melanoma, skin moles, and how to keep your skin healthy. For medical information about skin cancer, check our library.
[Dutch] Ieder jaar worden de Computable Awards uitgereikt aan bedrijven die zich ‘nadrukkelijk onderscheiden’ hebben. En SkinVision is trots om te melden dat wij dit jaar genomineerd zijn in de categorie ‘ICT-project van het jaar in de zorg’, samen met Living Lab eHealth! Help je ons mee om een award in de wacht te slepen?
More and more scientific experiments are unfolding and the results are strongly saying seeking the shade is not the only thing you can do to prevent melanoma.
SkinVision is featured on Skinawareness.co.uk, as well as it’s skin awareness special in The Guardian. Read the article to see what they think.
With healthcare records moving online, and more people — including doctors — expecting mobile solutions, it seems only natural that startups are emerging to help users visit the doctor remotely, track their medicine regime or get a diagnosis from a doctor thousands of miles away.
A diagnosis of skin cancer is something that no one wants to hear. Even when it is caught early before skin cancer symptoms arise, most people have moments of fear, surprise, and shock. However, if you are one of the rising numbers of young people being diagnosed with melanoma, you may feel that life has taken a very unexpected turn.
May is the Skin Cancer Awareness month as well as the start of the warm season in the Northern hemisphere so there’s no better time to get your facts straight on how to prevent melanoma skin cancer.
SkinVision is based on mobile technology. But that doesn’t mean that we only speak to those that are on top of technological improvements, but to everyone that we can help in being more healthy. This also includes pensioners and recent articles show that this is a group that needs help, now more than ever. Nowadays pensioners are seven times (!) more likely to develop life-threatening skin cancer than they were in the 1970s.
While there is still a lot for us to learn about how to prevent melanoma as well as treat it, these recent findings are potential game-changers. Read here about our melanoma update.
Now that summer in on its way we read a lot about what sunscreen fits our skin type and what we should do about the UV exposure on each given day. Everyone says “Don’t forget to wear protection against the sun”. It prevents our skin from sunburns, early aging, and skin cancer. Could it be, thus, that our friend, the sunscreen, is harming us? Not if we get these facts straight:
We get a lot of questions about the subject changing moles and melanoma symptoms. Of course, this is something that a lot of people worry about; is this mole simply a mole or is it a risky skin spot?