Hello everyone
Last month I went to my GP (nurse) about a couple of suspicious moles that have changed, and the nurse looked at them using a dermascope and took photos using the dermascope. She referred me under the urgent cancer referral pathway based on my history.
I had a severely dysplastic mole removed in 2021, with WLE and when that happened I was referred by GP to dermatology on 2ww, then had a biopsy at a later appointment and then about 6m later the WLE.
The nurse who referred me offered me 2 hospitals to be referred to, one where she said they use AI and another which didn't. I opted initially for the non-AI hospital (I don't trust AI much) but the earliest appt they could give me was December so I asked to be re-referred to the hospital which uses AI.
I haven't been given any information about what the appointment will entail or what happens next but from some lurking here I think the referral appt is just more photos under a dermascope which an AI looks at rather than a human?
Others have said they were then referred under 2ww AFTER their AI appt but I am already in theory on the 2ww pathway so I'm really confused about what will happen.
Can anyone advise me? From everything I've Googled and from speaking to Derms before, it is impossible to tell if something is melanoma or not just by looking, and what I'd really like is a biopsy and to get these two moles off me ASAP.
