My friend Professor Aimilios Lallas, President of the International Dermoscopy Society, has posted this great video on a new approach to …Diagnosing lentigo maligna-the inverse approach
Author: Antony Willman
GP, GP Educator and Academic Fellow working for the MOD near Salisbury Plain.
Photographing your skin lesions can really help
This older white man had a large lump on his skin. It started to itch and bleed, so he went to see his GP, who as anxious enough to refer him on the …Photographing your skin lesions can really help
Small but new and darker mole
This person presented with a mole that although small, was new and changing and looked wrong. There are 7 or 8 moles in view here, one near the …Small but new and darker mole
should you publish during your PhD?
So you are not doing PhD by publication. You’re not in a country and/or discipline which expects you to publish during your PhD – yes really, some do…should you publish during your PhD?
Suspicious mole on back
Men are more likely to get melanomas on the back (around 41%). It is also a difficult place to spot one. Not very dramatic, but different to other …Suspicious mole on back
Another sorry melanoma story
Searching on melanoma and Covid/Lockdown for some background to a research paper I am working on, I found this sad story in The Scottish Sun. The …Another sorry melanoma story
New, changing mole is cancer
This is an archive case. I’m planning to post more cases this year-this blog was originally aimed at medical professionals, but my ongoing clinical …New, changing mole is cancer
Peri-menopause and menopause resources
Just added to the resources drop down menu…more to follow…
Updated Mental Health Resources
I have updated these after being sent a very useful list by a colleague. There may be some duplication but it is growing into a comprehensive list. This is at a time when we are certainly seeing more mental health problems in primary care.
How dangerous is this basal cell cancer?
Basal cell carcinomas…
Just read a really nice international study on identifying BCC (basal cell cancer) sub-types in the January 2021edition of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV). An abstract can be read here by non subscribers https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jdv.16597
BCC is generally thought of as not a dangerous cancer as, unlike melanoma, it seldom metastasises. However, once it has begun, it never stops growing and can make deeply penetrating ulcers which scab, bleed, grow, never heal and, given enough time, will destroy underlying structures and cause serious harm. They can cause blindness by infiltrating into an eye, and death may eventually result, for example by ulcerating into a major blood vessel or the brain. It is therefore worth making the effort to diagnose BCCs early, especially in the head and neck, even if only to get smaller scars and smaller surgeon’s bills.
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