HOME BASED SKIN CANCER SCREENING AID

该第二阶段项目的目标是调查 基于计算机的早期检测新皮肤和变化皮肤的方法 由处于风险中的患者在其自己家中进行的损伤。 这 调查是基于一个创新的组合， 个人皮肤筛查的好处和一项新技术， 在临床上发现新的或改变的皮肤非常有效 在非常早期的发展阶段的病变。 拟议方法 提供了缓解早期的两个关键问题的潜力， 此类皮肤损伤的检测，即患者依从性和常规 进行全身筛查。 第一阶段工作的成功将提供 一个新的筛选软件产品的传播基础， 将非常有效地使患者能够使用他们现有的 个人电脑在自己家里的隐私来完成 明显优于任何上级筛选，他们已经做了在 过去 这是一个潜在的重要和深远的公共卫生 该项目可以显着减轻一个悲惨的癌症， 目前是美国增长最快的癌症。

The goal of this Phase II project is to investigate the efficacy of a computer based method for the early detection of new and changed skin lesions as conducted by the at-risk patient in his or her own home. This investigation is based on an innovative combination of demonstrated benefits of personal skin screening and a new technique which has been shown to be clinically very effective at finding new or changed skin lesions at a very early stage of development. The proposed methodology offers the potential of mitigating two of the critical problems of early detection of such skin lesions, i.e. patient compliance and routine conduct of whole body screening. A successful phase I effort will provide a foundation for dissemination of a new screening software product which would be very effective at enabling patients to use their own existing personal computer in the privacy of their own home to accomplish demonstrably far superior screening to anything they have done in the past. This is a potentially important and far-reaching public health project which could significantly mitigate a tragic cancer which is presently the fastest growing cancer in the United States.