With an optical device the pigmented injuries are analyzed with an accuracy range exponentially bigger than that of the clinical examination with the naked eye or with magnifying glasses, which allows to take decisions more suitable with regard to the therapeutics, especially when it involves a surgical intervention.

As told Dr. Beatriz Mantecón, pioneer of this technique in the territory, its use allows to discard proper patterns of the skin cancer in spots, moles or other cutaneous irregularities, to avoid the use of the biopsy before the absence of these indicators .

With it, diminishes the employment of the invasive procedure for the diagnostic criterion, and a major safety is offered to the patient from the moment of the physical examination, there recounted the doctor, head of the teaching of the specialty of Dermatology of the province.

The dermatoscopy is carried out in a weekly consultation in the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, and in the monthly consultation of genodermatoses, in the Provincial Centre for Medical Genetics, for patients with injuries at chromosomal level.

Approximately three years ago it kicked off to be applied, reported Dr. Mantecón, but in the last year better outcomes have been obtained since there exist already two residents' theses of the specialty, one focused in its effectiveness in the diagnosis of the pigmented injuries and the other in the basal carcinoma.

According to information of the Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of Public Health of 2014, available on the Internet, the skin cancer provoked last year over 400 deaths in Cuba, and although it is not among those of major death rate, it is that of major incidence in the population, with over 8 000 annual cases.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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