skin cancer screenings offered in this pharmacy near Toulouse

Since the end of 2024, the Montgiscard pharmacy has been offering skin cancer screening with a tele-expertise carried out by a dermatologist. This Appointment of around thirty minutes allows a rapid treatment in the event of problematic skin lesionsas well as limiting the consequences of skin diseases.

Pharmacy screening

make yourself detect skin diseases in pharmacieswithout going through the (complex) box of making an appointment with a dermatologist, it is possible.

Et it’s new at the Montgiscard pharmacy : simply make an appointment to determine whether certain skin lesions are at risk.

Self-screening

Before going to the pharmacy, however, you must carry out at home a self-screeningby answering a quick questionnaire.

It is then necessary to target doubtful lesions present on the body. Here it is mainly a question of moles which present an asymmetry, which are not homogeneous, which have a large diameter…

The dermatoscope

Using a tool called dermatoscope the pharmacist then takes a photo of the lesions concerned, which are then transmitted to an online dermatologist.

« They are the ones who will make a diagnosisand react to each lesion. The patient receives their results in just a few days,” explains Anaïs Bernonpharmacy technician.

Faster support

“If a very serious lesion is noticed, the dermatologist contacts the patient directly; and if it is simply necessary to schedule a consultation, he sends him a registered letter to be able to make an appointment faster than usual “, she continues.

Anaïs Bernon warns, however: “ Screening does not replace dermatological follow-up but it is a support to be supported. »

Dermatological desert

This initiative aims to help remedy the difficulties of residents in making an appointment with a dermatologist .

“It’s terrible, there are people who wait a long time to be able to be followed and who end up giving upbecause they can’t find it,” worries the pharmacy technician.

The importance of screening

According to the prospectus issued by the Montgiscard pharmacy, and according to Santé Publique France 2023, “in France, in 2022,approximately 150,000 new skin cancershave been diagnosed.

This is the reason why the pharmacy, which already carries out around fifteen screenings per month, for all ages, wishes to do even more: “Sometimes,skin cancer can be devastatingand it can go very quickly. Screening makes it possible to monitor and avoid cancer orlimit the consequences. »

Practical information
Montgiscard Pharmacy – ZI du Canal, 6 RD 813 – 31 450 Montgiscard
Make an appointment at 05 61 81 90 09

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