Tag: calcipotriol

  • Nation & World

    Cutting skin cancer risk by 75 percent

    A treatment previously shown to clear the precancerous skin lesions called actinic keratosis now appears to reduce the chance that the treated skin will develop squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs), the second-most-common form of skin cancer.

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    Precancerous actinic keratosis cells –
  • Nation & World

    Topical treatment clears precancerous skin lesions

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found a topical chemotherapy and an immune-system-activating compound that is able to rapidly clear actinic keratosis lesions from patients participating in a clinical trial.

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