Skin Lesions and Mole Checks in St Ives

Skin tags, milia, cherry angiomas, age spots, warts and verrucas are common and usually harmless, but many people find them annoying or would simply prefer them gone. Moles are different: most are harmless too, but they are the lesions most worth keeping an eye on.

Map My Mole is a screening service. At your appointment we examine the mole or lesion with a dermoscope and take detailed images, which are reviewed remotely by a UK consultant dermatologist. You receive a written report, usually within 24 to 48 hours. Our nurses take the images and look after you, but they do not diagnose. The opinion comes from the dermatologist.

If the report raises any concern, it will say so clearly and recommend you see your GP or a dermatologist in person, and the report can be taken to your GP to support a referral. We never remove a mole or treat a lesion that has not been confirmed as suitable.

Cryotherapy uses a precise, controlled freeze to treat harmless lesions such as skin tags, warts, verrucas, cherry angiomas and some age spots. The treated area blisters or scabs and heals over the following weeks, and some lesions need more than one session.

A reassuring report is not a guarantee for the future. Keep checking your skin regularly and seek medical advice if a mole changes in size, shape or colour, bleeds, itches or looks different from your other moles.