Skin-Cancer Spotting Apps Miss Their Marks

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Skin-Cancer Spotting Apps Miss Their Marks

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Jan 16, 2013

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New smart phone apps that purport to assess patients' skin lesions as cancer or not are unreliable, according to a new study. Katherine Harmon reports

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Jan 16, 2013

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Scientific American reporter Dina Fine Maron gives a weekly one-minute report on the latest health and medical news. To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast

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