Internal Medicine Center
About
At the Internal Medicine Center, we care for each person with compassion and expertise. We believe in personalized treatment that targets your individual needs, while aligning with your values, offering you the best possible solution for your specific case. The medical team at the Internal Medicine Center works as part of multidisciplinary teams that treat each patient holistically, addressing all aspects of internal medicine (e.g. diabetes or infectious diseases) and wellbeing.
Cooperative Departments
Diagnostic Services
At the GMI Skin Cancer Center, our highly specialised professionals are dedicated to the early diagnosis and management of skin cancer.
Using a dermatoscope, a handheld device that can magnify skin lesions up to 10 times, a specialized dermatologist assesses the colour and structure of each lesion, evaluating whether it has features that are specific to skin cancers, but which cannot be seen with the naked eye. In experienced hands an examination with a dermatoscope can lead to the early diagnosis of skin cancer.
Furthermore, the dermatology department is equipped with a brand-new tool that automates total body mapping with digital dermoscopy and artificial intelligence. This not only photographs and records all moles on the body but also helps identify suspicious, new, and altered moles efficiently and precisely. This tool scans and takes a picture of all moles a patient may have and recognises any anomalies that may need further assessment. All mole pictures can be magnified, and the characteristics of each mole can be analysed. Furthermore, these pictures can be saved and compared to a new set of pictures on a patient’s future visit to identify any new or changing moles.
After careful examination using the tools above, our surgical dermatologist will perform a skin biopsy, removing the suspicious lesion if possible. This is done under local anaesthetic at our clinic, in a procedure that is as quick and convenient as possible. The wound is closed with a few stitches and a plaster is applied. The lesion is then sent to our histopathology laboratory for analysis of its cellular and molecular characteristics, which will provide accurate diagnosis and valuable details for further treatment, if necessary.
Treatments
The pathology report from the biopsy will guide any necessary further management. National and international protocols and guidelines are adopted for the management of a new diagnosis of skin cancer.
We embrace a multi-disciplinary approach to medicine, where highly specialised professionals from teams of different specialties including dermatology, surgery, radiation oncology, and medical oncology meet weekly and discuss each new case to decide the optimal treatment for each patient.
We offer a full spectrum of examinations in-house for every stage of the cancer journey including staging, managing, and monitoring, using the latest technology and equipment, including PET/CT, MRI scans.
Depending on the type of skin cancer, characteristics, and overall clinical staging of the cancer, further management may include advanced skin surgery and / or radiotherapy. Advanced systemic disease may require treatment with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or new targeted treatments.
We are here to guide and support you along the way.
Contact details
- (+357) 25 208 000
- [email protected]
- 1, Nikis Avenue 4108, Agios Athanasios, Cyprus
- Mon - Fri | 08:00 - 17:00
FAQs
You can call our call center and request a dermatology appointment by leaving your information. A member of the dermatology team will return your call in a few hours to book you in for an appointment with the appropriate members of the GMI team.
Yes. We have adopted an urgent pathway system, as per international guidelines, where any suspicious new or changing lesions will be assessed within 15 days. We therefore have allocated appointments each week for this purpose. This is to optimise the earliest diagnosis of something suspicious on your skin.
Yes. Our dermatologists are part of the GESY and are therefore seeing patients and offer treatments that are offered in the GESY. However, our Department of Dermatology also offers a full spectrum of dermatology related services, including any private or aesthetic treatments that the GESY does not cover.
Such treatments are carried out during dedicated time slots.
Our dermatologists assess each patient on an individual basis. They discuss their wishes and expectations and offer advice on aesthetic treatments taking each patient’s profile into consideration. Photographs are taken and a solid treatment plan is formed and scheduled. The initial consultation is therefore an important part of your aesthetic treatment package, so we do not book treatments before the first consultation.
