Byline: Cheryl Powell
There's an easy way to focus on the health of your skin and spot potentially deadly cancer at its earliest stages.
If you've got a camera, you've got everything you need to get started.
Simple snapshots by even the most novice photographer of his or her moles, lesions or other types of skin marks can serve as an important piece of the medical record, said Dr. Eliot Mostow, chief of dermatology at Akron (Ohio) General Medical Center.
Mostow is heading up an effort with Akron General and the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine to encourage health-care consumers to take photos of their skin.
"Take something, file the date and save it," Mostow said. "Any picture is better than no picture."
The program, which started in September, is known as "Pictures In …
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