The St Petersburg University Clinic offers free skin cancer screening
Doctors from the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at St Petersburg University will conduct free examinations and diagnostic tests using a dermatoscope to detect melanoma. This is the best way to diagnose melanoma and other skin cancers.
If a disease is suspected, patients will be offered hospitalisation in the Oncology Department of the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at St Petersburg University. There, patients will be able to receive free treatment according to the compulsory health insurance policy.
A dermatologist will receive patients at the following address: 20/1 Korablestroitelei Street, the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at St Petersburg University. An appointment can be made and agreed on a date and time by calling 8 (812) 676 25 25.
Melanoma is a potentially deadly skin cancer. The disease can develop rapidly and metastasise. However, in 90% of cases the disease is successfully and completely cured if it is diagnosed at an early stage and treated properly.