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Early Detection
When to Contact Your Doctor
Contact your doctor promptly if you detect any of the following changes:
- Increase in the size of a pre-existing mole
- Change in shape of a pre-existing mole, particularly irregular borders
- Change in color of a pre-existing mole, including a darkening, loss of color, or the development of a red area
- Any unusual oozing or bleeding from a pre-existing mole
- Halo formation around a pre-existing mole
- Itching, tenderness or (less commonly) pain from a pre-existing mole
- Any unusual sore, lump, blemish, scaling, or marking
- Appearance of a new mole in previously normal, unpigmented skin
- Any new or suspicious lesion
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