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Smartphone apps used as ‘early warning systems’ for skin cancer are poorly regulated and frequently cannot be relied upon to produce accurate results, according to experts.

Although I was broad minded on the potential benefit of apps for diagnosing skin cancer, I am now worried given the results of our study and the overall poor quality of studies used to test these apps. My advice to anyone worried about a possible skin cancer is 'if in doubt, check it out with your GP.'

Hywel Williams, Professor of Dermatology at the 糖心原创

Researchers at the in collaboration with CEBD have analysed a series of studies produced to evaluate the accuracy of six different apps. Their results, , reveal a mixed picture, with only a small number of studies showing variable and unreliable test accuracy among the apps evaluated.