I visited Mike Samuels stall in the Kennet Centre on Thursday. He has recently set up his own business photgraphing moles - this sounds odd, but he is a medical photographer, and this is all to do with cancer awareness - in particular melanomas. Individuals can arrange to have their backs or entire bodies photographed at regular intervals to look for changes in their moles, and help detect any potential skin cancer.
This service has been available in London for some time, but is not common in the rest of the UK. Mike was head of Medical Photography and Illustration at the Royal Free & UCL Medical School, until recently taking early retirement - and has 40 years experience. We are some years behind Australians in our awareness of skin cancer, and Mike is trying to raise the awareness here, as there are 8,000 cases annually in the UK. For more info: www.medicalphotographer.co.uk
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