Recognizing skin cancer symptoms using model based imaging
If quality skin model is constructed, then recognizing skin cancer symptoms can be easier as there are many factors showing about threat of skin cancer. Of course this can’t give 100% results, as there are many shortcomings connected with skin lesion variety and interpretation errors. But some guides may help.
There are 3 main factors that can indicate risk of skin cancer. Recognizing skin cancer symptoms can be based on them. They are:
- Melanin presence in papillary dermis;
- Thickness of papillary dermis;
- Blood behavior around the lesion and inside it.
Firs of all Melanin presence in dermis. This is the main factor in recognizing skin cancer symptoms. If there is melanin spreaded in papillary dermis or even dermis, this is a big probability of being skin cancer symptoms, but not always. There are several sub factors in this issue like melanin spreading figure, depth, and melanin density within this shape. If there are more irregularities in spreading area there are more risks.

Other factor in recognizing skin cancer symptoms is papillary layer thickness. In not going in to deep too much there can be said, that thinner this layer, the bigger risk.

And last figure, which can be noticed even with eye, is the blood shape. Usually around risky lesions there is more intense blood feed. The area around lesion is more reddish, while inside the blood is diminished. It is explained, that there is bigger demand of blood to grow and divide caner cells.

But again recognizing skin cancer symptoms is not only inspecting these values, while there can be benign lesions with symptoms indicating skin cancer. These indicators can only help in overall diagnosis.


I have this painful white bump next to my nostril. i tried popping it but its just to painful, even around it hurt. Can it be a sign of skin cancer?
Comment by solange — August 13, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
I have a slightly painful bump under a large freckle on my left arm, which has been troubling me on and off for a couple of months, it keeps coming up and going down again. Could this be anything to worry about.
Comment by Paulette Scott — August 31, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
Hi Paulette,These bumps are probably due to Dermatitis. Avoiding the causing substance is the mainstay of prevention in addition to medications prescribed by your doctor.
Comment by Skin Care — November 14, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
if you have white spots on your back what does that mean ?
Comment by Josh Kinnee — October 6, 2008 @ 1:02 am
I have a freckel/mole on my cheast, that my puppy scrached open about 7 months ago. Ever since then there has been a white ring around it, could that be a sign of skin cancer?
Comment by shay — October 10, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
If i have some black and paintful spots on my neck what does that mean?
Comment by jojo — February 4, 2009 @ 3:14 am