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Skin cancer apps ‘cannot be relied upon for accurate results’, study finds

by Clive Flashman

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Smartphone apps designed to detect the risk of skin cancer are poorly regulated and “frequently cannot be relied upon to produce accurate results”, according to a new analysis. They found the apps may cause harm from failure to identify potentially deadly skin cancers, or from over-investigation of false positive results such as removing a harmless mole unnecessarily.

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Source: Digital Health, 14 February 2020

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