Scots mum 'diagnosed' own with skin cancer with app from smartphone

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Scots woman ‘diagnosed’ her own cancer after using smartphone app to check a worrying mole Laura O’Donnell had become increasingly concerned after noticing the tiny growth on her stomach just before lockdown.

And it was after going on Google that she found the app - which came back with a red alert that her mole was at ‘high risk’ of being melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

The 43-year-old from Bothwell in Lanarkshire says: “I have been very lucky."If I hadn’t used the app I probably wouldn’t have gone to my GP until now - and God knows what it could have been like at this stage.“I’m a positive person, and I’m just glad it was diagnosed early and removed straight away.

But I have no doubt that, in the long term, it could have saved my life.”Laura first spotted the dark-coloured mole on her stomach in February 2020.She says: “I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth.