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Zdravie Health Protect your health Summer is especially a  season of relax, energy, joy and lots of sport activities. But we can not forget that the rays of the sun besides the beneficial effect on our body and spirit bring our skin many inconveniences even illnesses on different levels; from irritated, sunburnt, allergic reaction to the sun to the most malicious disease, which is the dangerous malignant melanoma or skin cancer. Its maliciousness is just in that, that it is often painless, it does not let know about itself and at the same time it belongs to the fastest spreading cancers of the human organism. If you have only the smallest suspicion that some of your “moles” changes its size, colour, it is itching, swelling, getting red, bleeding or it is becoming asymmetrical, it has irregular blurred jagged borders, call the dermatologist immediately. He will examine and diagnose by hand dermatoscope or digital videodermatoscope not only the malicious mole but all others on the whole body as well. At the clinic of dermatovenerology in PLK ProCare, Bratislava (Centrál) at least once a  year I  regularly examine each of my patients by dermatoscopy. If the patient has any suspiction about the changes with his mole out of the date of regular preventive dermatology examination, he is examined urgently - immediately. It suffices only to make an appointment by phone on the exact date determined by you. Malignant melanoma