As part of this year’s Euromelanoma campaign, free examinations of moles and lesions suspected of skin cancer will be carried out in May and June in 26 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and in 48 public and private health institutions, including the main four clinical centers.
This was confirmed for agency Fena by the president of Euromelanoma BiH, Hana Helppikangas, a specialist in dermatovenerology, stating that the examinations will be performed by 86 doctors, mostly dermatologists, but also general practitioners and plastic surgeons.
”The easiest way for citizens to be informed about where and when examinations will be conducted is to visit our website https://www.euromelanoma.eu/bs-ba/. Also, for now it is known that external activities will be organized in some cities. In Sarajevo, a group of dermatologists will conduct public examinations of citizens on May 25th in the Alta shopping center from 1 to 3 p.m. and the Think Pink Center for women suffering from breast cancer from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.,” said Helppikangas.
The importance of the examination is that melanoma is one of the most aggressive carcinomas in human pathology, and if it is not recognized at an early stage, metastases occur very quickly throughout the body.
”Every citizen has birthmarks and exposes himself to the sun every day without even realizing it. The sun itself is the biggest risk factor that changes the good structures of birthmarks into atypical or, consequently, malignant ones. For this reason, dermatologists, as experts in dermoscopy, know how to recognize mole changes at the earliest stage of the dermoscopic structure, when life is 100% saved,” said Helppikangas.
