both the patient and the practitioner have easy access to precancerous and cancerous skin lesions. This assists in the design of topical treatments that can be administered just to the suspected malignant region of change while causing little harm to healthy skin. It may be necessary...
Topical treatmentSkin cancerOrgan transplant recipientsVarious treatments of keratotic skin lesions and early skin cancers are performed in organ transplant recipients (OTRs) at high risk of skin malignancies but the frequency of their use is unknown. We prospectively assessed the frequency of use of ...
Some forms of skin cancer may be treated non-surgically using topical creams, liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery), curettage, light-based treatments or laser treatments. Cryosurgery is a simple, non-invasive procedure in which liquid nitrogen is used to freeze and destroy growths on the surface of the...
In the case of skin cancer, however, the intent is that the drug becomes concentrated in the area below the stratum corneum that requires treatment. This is the reason why, in the study led by Lopez, she chose to place the chemotherapeutic agent inside nanoparticles. Using mice, the research...
Topical administration avoids the side-effects of orally administered retinoids, but doubts remain over their efficacy. Evidence from clinical studies suggests that although topical retinoids have some effect in treating established skin cancers, alternative treatments are more effective. Topical retinoids ...
Other types of treatments for skin cancers include: Cryosurgery where tissue is destroyed by freezing Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in which medication and blue light are used to destroy the cancerous tissue Laser surgery to vaporize (ablate) the skin's top layer and destroy lesions Oral medications...
Jose A, Labala S, Ninave KM, Gade SK, Venuganti VVK. Effective Skin Cancer Treatment by Topical Co- delivery of Curcumin and STAT3 siRNA Using Cationic Liposomes. AAPS PharmSciTech. 2018;19(1):166- 175.Jose A, Labala S, Ninave KM, et al. Effective akin xancer treatment by topical ...
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This review provides an up-to-date overview of novel and emerging systemic and topical treatments for epithelial skin cancers and discusses the rationale for their use in the evolving therapeutic landscape of these tumors.doi:10.1586/edm.11.70Dessinioti, Clio...