With the beginning of spring and the arrival of long, sunny days, it is often not remembered that skin care should be intensified to protect it from the harmful effects that ultraviolet radiation can produce on it, such as photoaging (wrinkles, spots, loss of elasticity, etc.) and, most importantly, skin cancer.
The Sánchez del Río Clinic has launched the Cutaneous Oncology Unit with the aim of promoting procedures for the prevention of skin cancer and especially for the assessment of moles and early diagnosis of a high-mortality tumor such as melanoma.
In their new and modern facilities they have the most advanced technology for this purpose. The Fotofinder Bodystudy ATBM equipment, unique in Asturian healthcare both in the public and private spheres, allows for digital and automatic body mapping, obtaining macroscopic photographs of the whole body and microscopic photographs of the most suspicious moles with high quality and resolution. In this way, in successive revisions, both the appearance of new lesions and changes suffered in existing ones can be detected with great precision, in addition to avoiding unnecessary surgical removal of trivial lesions.
Likewise, they have Photodynamic Therapy equipment that allows them to treat the so-called cancerization field and thus prevent the appearance of non-melanoma skin cancer in people with intense sun damage.
On the other hand, and due to the fact that their patients increasingly demand the correction of the alterations that both the passing of the years and the sunlight produce on their faces, they have created the Aesthetic Dermatology Unit. This unit has a Fotofinder Aesthetics unit, a sophisticated skin analysis tool that allows you to plan personalized aesthetic treatments. Adonia, the software included in this equipment, makes it possible to analyze skin damage in five dimensions: pores, pigmentation, wrinkles, redness and skin uniformity. Thus, and thanks to the images obtained from the face from different angles, they can make a global assessment of the skin, which allows the doctor to decide the most appropriate aesthetic treatment for each person, as well as assess the results obtained and improve treatment compliance. .
Aware of the lack of a Phototherapy Unit in private healthcare in the Asturian community, the Sánchez del Río Dermatological Clinic has also acquired two phototherapy units, one palmoplantar and the other full-body, which allow them to offer a therapeutic alternative for a group of pathologies (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, pruritus, etc.), with more and more affected and with a significant impact on the quality of life in a range of hours that does not interfere with the work activity of patients.