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Magazine article
What’s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?
The Conversation
25/03/2025
Appears in Recent Faculty of Health Publications
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Abstract
You’ve got a new brown spot on your face, but is it a freckle or a sunspot? Or perhaps you’ve found a spot on your back that looks like a mole but is flatter than your other ones – is it a mole or a dark freckle?
Here’s how to tell the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles – and when you need to get a spot checked to see if it’s skin cancer.
Details
- Title
- What’s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?
- Creators
- Mike Climstein - Southern Cross UniversityJeremy Hudson - Southern Cross UniversityMichael Stapelberg - Southern Cross UniversityNedeljka Rosic - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group Ltd
- Grant note
- Mike Climstein received funding from Johnson & Johnson. Jeremy Hudson receives funding from Agaibey Enterprises Ltd. Michael Stapelberg receives funding from Johnson & Johnson. Nedeljka Rosic received research funding from Johnson & Johnson.
- Identifiers
- 991013268709402368
- Academic Unit
- Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article