In settings where traditional microscope is not available smartphones can be used as microscopes to detect skin cancer with a reasonable accuracy new research has found. Doctors in some remote areas don't have access to the high-powered microscopes we use to evaluate skin samples said study lead author Richard Jahan-Tigh assistant professor at The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston (UTHealth) US. Doctors there could conceivably use their smartphones to photograph growths and forward them for examination Jahan-Tigh noted. When it comes to the diagnosis of cancer smartphone microscopes are reasonably accurate showed the findings published in the
