Cancer News: Common Cancer Of The Skin Smooth Wrinkles Drugs
Chicago (Reuters) – Cream for the treatment of early signs of skin cancer in May and the elimination of wrinkles leaving the skin younger outlook, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said, Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ Efudex cream to treat actinic keratosis, a precancerous squamous form, improves the appearance of the skin, smoothing wrinkles and angles, better color, and the removal of brown spots.
Sachs said that the cream seems to lead to responses that wound healing leads to increased production of collagen, to improve the representation of folds.
“In medicine many years,” said Dr. Dan Sachs of the University of Michigan, which is contained in the research archives of dermatology.
Sachs said that more than four decades to treat actinic keratoses, which is considered a steep cliff or bumps on the skin. They are mostly sun-exposed areas such as the face, neck, forearms, or lips.
The treatment of Efudex, commonly known as fluorouracil, is not easy. Shortly after the cream is applied, the skin becomes red and inflamed.
“Patients seem very bad,” Sachs said in a telephone interview. “Skin red. I’ve heard, they describe how people like the meat raw.
But after treatment, the patient said that the skin is younger. “The people they were better. Not only pre-cancerous, but also the quality of the skin appears to have improved, “said Sachs
Sachs and his colleagues, if they really want to measure the difference in the skin.
They studied 21 people between the ages of 56 to 85 with actinic keratoses and sun damage. In volunteers the cream twice daily, at first sight for two weeks, the team measured the changes in the skin biopsy of the face within six months.
The drug has a significant impact.
“Human skin is much softer,” Sachs said: “The structure has been improved. There are fewer wrinkles around the upper cheek and eye.”
The researchers also found, the skin appears less yellow, and even toned with less brown spots.
Sachs says, in patients with precancerous spots, in May the result is a further incentive to complete treatment. May it be useful in treating symptoms of the sun, to the detriment of other patients as well, “she says.
Actinic keratosis are characterized by years of sun damage and can lead to squamous, one of the two most common types of skin cancer, more than 1 million new cases per year. They come to kill and heal, except in rare cases, totally ignored.
