Mystery Mole Sparks Julia Roberts Cancer Debate  10/27/06

Movie star Julia Roberts has been urged to seek professional help after a mysterious mole showed up on the side of her right breast during a recent photo shoot.

Photographers spotted the blemish as they snapped the Ocean's Twelve star at a Hollywood tribute to George Clooney last week (ends20OCT06) and now cancer experts are calling for the actress to get screened.

After seeing photos of the actress' mole Dr Christine Horner, a cancer expert and plastic surgeon in Taos, New Mexico, where Roberts has a home, tells US tabloid the Globe, "I would definitely remove the mole.

"It is raised, pigmented and greater than a centimeter, which statistically increases the risk of it converting to malignancy."

But Beverly Hills dermatologist Dr David Stoll insists the blemish looks as if Roberts has already had a growth removed.

He adds, "It looks like a scar from the removal of a growth."