Skin cancer? Yes, there's an app for that.
After your summer tan begins to fade and you worry about all the damage you may have done to your skin, wouldn’t it be great if you could check out your skin for potential skin cancer without trekking to your doctor? Now there’s an app for that. But there’s a catch: You’ll have to fully expose yourself for results.
The University of Michigan developed the iPhone app, coined UMSkinCheck (free), to help you conduct a self exam and detect skin cancer warning signs. Background info within the app says that “studies have shown that total body photography can be an important tool in helping track skin changes that could indicate skin cancer.”
And while whole body photographic self-diagnosis already exists, the app aims to make it a bit simpler – and cheaper. Instead of hiring a professional photographer for full body shots, the app allows you to take multiple shots of different body parts. In other words, take 23 nude photographs in 7 different poses that will be stored on an app. And you can’t take all the photos yourself, so you’ll have to enlist a friend to help.