Fig. 10.

Tape stripping is a non-invasive technique for skin sampling. a The typical procedure of conventional tape stripping. 1) The penetration formulation was applied on the surface of the skin. 2) The formulation was spread across the sampling area. 3 & 4) The tape was applied and subsequently removed for downstream analysis. b The tape stripping biopsy kit from DermTech. The technique was performed by a technician at a clinic, and the tape was sent to a laboratory for analysis. c Performance of LINC00518 and/or PRAME preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma detection in the validation sets suggested a 91% sensitivity and 69% specificity. Both numbers were higher than using a dermoscopy alone. Pictures retrieved from Lademann et al. 2009 and Gerami et al. 2017