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