OHSU dermatologists detect the world’s smallest skin cancer

Guinness World Records recognizes the team that verified the world’s smallest skin cancer, OHSU leaders emphasize the importance of early cancer detection

By Amanda Gibbs May 01, 2023 Portland, Oregon

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Awards

Joanna Ludzik, M.D., Ph.D., Guinness World Records judge Andrew Glass, and Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D. Glass awarded each team member a certificate for their newly earned record for detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Patrick Kinghorn)

Virtual Biopy Video OHSU RCM Device

Joanna Ludzick, M.D., Ph.D.

Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D.

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., (OHSU)

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., performs a skin check.

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., performs a skin check on an OHSU patient in 2015. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)

OHSU dermatologists recognized

Guinness World Records recognizes a team of OHSU dermatologists for the world’s smallest skin cancer detected. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Explanation of technology

Joanna Ludzik, M.D., Ph.D., describes the Reflectance Confocal Microscopy technology to event attendees as Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D., looks on. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Reflectance Confocal Microscopy

Joanna Ludzik, M.D., Ph.D., demonstrates the Reflectance Confocal Microscopy device, an imaging tool that helps clinicians monitor and diagnose skin lesions without needing to cut into the skin. This tool was used to help diagnose the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Guinness World Record for smallest melanoma

Joanna Ludzik, M.D., Ph.D., and Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D., receive official certification from Guinness World Records judge Andrew Glass as OHSU patient Christy Staats looks on. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer

Guinness World Records judge Andrew Glass presents Joanna Ludzik, M.D., Ph.D., an award for detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Guinness World Records at OHSU

Guinness World Records judge Andrew Glass presents Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D., an award for detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU earns recognition

Attendees watch the OHSU team receive certification for detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Cheering OHSU on

Attendees watch the OHSU team receive certification for detecting the world’s smallest skin cancer. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU patient Christy Staats

OHSU patient Christy Staats, right, speaks with an event attendee. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU melanoma event

Alexander Witkowski, M.D., Ph.D., speaks with OHSU patient advocate Robin Zimmerman after the melanoma event. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Finding melanoma

Christy Staats’ melanoma: the first image is of the clinical finding, the second is the SKLIP dermoscopy image, and the third is the virtual biopsy RCM device image. (OHSU)