Skin Cancer Treatments and Diagnosis

    Non-surgical approach

  • Annual skin cancer screening
  • Fotofinder Dermatoscopy evaluation
  • Mole mapping
  • Non-invasive management of skin cancer procedures
  • Photodynamic Therapy

    • Surgical approach

  • Biopsy
  • Cryosurgery
  • Electro surgery
  • Surgical excision
  • Referral for MOHS Micrographic surgery with Skinmatters at ‘ Club Surgical Centre’ after skin biopsy
  • Referral to Plastic surgery or general surgery after biopsy

    Velkanker Behandelings en Diagnose

    Non-Chirurgiese benadering

  • Jaarlikse velkanker oorsig
  • Fotofinder Dermotoskopie evaluasie
  • Moesie kartering
  • Nie ingrypende hantering van velkanker behandelings
  • Fotodinamiese Terapie

    • Chirurgiese benadering

  • Biopsie
  • Krioterapie
  • Elektrochirurgie
  • Chirurgiese eksisie
  • Verwysing vir ‘MOHS Micrographic surgery’ met Skinmatters by ‘Club Surgical Centre” na vel biopsie
  • Verwysing na Plastiese chirurgie of algemene chirurgie na biopsie

Particular caution with the following moles:


  • Newly developed moles
  • Changes in colour, e.g. lighter, darker, new shades
  • Discomfort, e.g. itching, burning, painful with sun exposure, foreign body sensation
  • Increase and decrease of siize,  thickness or elevation
  • Bleeding moles
  • Changes in the surrounding area of moles, e.g. redness, white colouration, swelling

In South Africa we have a skin cancer awareness day yearly on 1 September

Fotofinder Mole mapping


Setting the pace in skin imaging Worldwide Early diagnosis of skin cancers. During the examination we take video dermatoscope to get an image of a lesion or mole to analyse with a 20x to 40x enlargement to analyse for malignancy clues.  a Patient with multiple atypical moles the images can be stored to enable us to objectively compare it with previous stored images of the skin and moles with regular check-up.

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