I need to get some moles on my back/neck/shoulders checked. DH just had a skin cancer removed, and it's about time I stopped finding excuses to not get my moles checked.
So, do I visit a GP, dermatologist, skin clinic? How do I go about this?
I've made an appt with my GP to do it. They also have someone in the clinic who specialises in it. I think you can just go to a skin clinic too. A colleague goes to one where they map them, take photos and can compare any changes over time.
My mum just had skin cancer removed as well. Her GP found it and sent her to a specialist to have it removed.
a dermatologist will do it. They can map them and also remove them. When they're removed they are sent for histology to make sure they are nothing sinister. I can recommend a good one in Vic if you want to go private. Or St Vincent's has some great ones on the public system (just get a referral from your GP).
I go to my GP, she does it, and refers any scary looking ones on. There haven't been any scary looking ones, apparently. I have pointed out everything scary to her, and she thinks they'r all normal.
Good luck. I kind of like getting it done.
My GP says the best place to go is a molescan place. They have better equipment to look at them than a GP. I had a few worrying ones which I showed to 3 GPS who all said they were fine. When I went to the molescan place though he said there was no possible way you could say they weren't melanoma's without testing them and they looked very suspicious so he took them off. Luckily they weren't melanoma, they were something else and he got all of it which is good. So I won't trust a GP again for checking my skin.
Just had mine checked and have a basal cell carcinoma on my back. Glad I got them checked.
The GP said she could remove it, but as it could leave a scar and I'm vain as hell, she's given me the name of a plastic surgeon to do it. Anyone else had one removed that way? Apparently the procedure will be $400-600 out of pocket.
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