• Tell your doctor about any changes you see.
•  If you are concerned that a skin lesion may be melanoma, you should schedule an appointment with a doctor. 

Contact your doctor promptly if you detect any of the following changes:

• Increase in the size of a preexisting mole

• Change in shape of a preexisting mole, particularly irregular borders

• Change in color of a preexisting mole, including a darkening, loss of color, or the development of a red area

• Any unusual oozing or bleeding from a preexisting mole

• Halo formation around a preexisting mole

• Itching, tenderness, or (less commonly) pain from a preexisting mole

• Any unusual sore, lump, blemish, scaling, or marking

• Appearance of a new mole in previously normal, unpigmented skin

• Any new or suspicious lesion