HOME BASED SKIN CANCER SCREENING AID

这个第二阶段项目的目标是调查一种 一种基于计算机的早期检测新旧皮肤的方法 由高危患者在自己家中进行的损害。这 调查基于一种创新的组合，展示了 个人皮肤筛查的好处和一项新技术已经被 在临床上对发现新的或变化的皮肤非常有效 病变处于非常早期的发展阶段。建议的方法 提供了缓解早期两个关键问题的潜力 检测此类皮肤损害，即患者依从性和常规 进行全身筛查。成功的第一阶段努力将提供 一种新的筛查软件产品的传播基础，该产品 将非常有效地使患者能够使用他们自己现有的 个人电脑在自己家的隐私中实现 显然比他们在电影中做的任何事情都要好得多 过去时。这是一个潜在的重要和深远的公共卫生 可以显著减轻一种悲剧性癌症的项目 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.