Treating skin cancer with topical cream

作者: Giuseppe Micali , Francesco Lacarrubba , Franco Dinotta , Doriana Massimino , Maria Rita Nasca

DOI: 10.1517/14656566.2010.481284

关键词:

摘要: Importance of the field: Topical pharmacotherapy is an approach to consider in selected skin cancers. Noninvasive, tissue-sparing, topical, self-administered treatments represent a highly desirable alternative option, both aged and unhealthy patients who may be poor surgical candidates, as well relatively young subjects with lesions located on cosmetically sensitive areas wishing avoid disfiguring scars. This paper reviews discusses use topical treatment cancer.Areas covered this review: examines existing literature updates current knowledge for cancer using fluorouracil, imiquimod, diclofenac retinoids.What reader will gain: There gap between best practice that only partially known. The purpose provide in-depth topic; consequently, readers should able consider...

参考文章(108)
Noah Scheinfeld, Daniel S Lehman, An evidence-based review of medical and surgical treatments of genital warts. Dermatology Online Journal. ,vol. 12, pp. 5- 5 ,(2006)
Daniel Navi, Arthur Huntley, Imiquimod 5 percent cream and the treatment of cutaneous malignancy. Dermatology Online Journal. ,vol. 10, pp. 4- 4 ,(2004)
Claas Ulrich, Topical Treatment of Field Cancerization Cancer treatment and research. ,vol. 146, pp. 439- 446 ,(2009) , 10.1007/978-0-387-78574-5_36
Norman M. Price, The treatment of actinic keratoses with a combination of 5-fluorouracil and imiquimod creams. Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. ,vol. 6, pp. 778- 781 ,(2007)
Robert Strohal, Claudia Schiessl, Martina Tauber, Carola Wolber, Felix Offner, Treatment of all basal cell carcinoma variants including large and high-risk lesions with 5% imiquimod cream: histological and clinical changes, outcome, and follow-up. Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. ,vol. 6, pp. 507- 513 ,(2007)
Yuchi C. Chang, Vandana Madkan, Robert Cook-Norris, Karan Sra, Stephen Tyring, Current and potential uses of imiquimod Southern Medical Journal. ,vol. 98, pp. 914- 920 ,(2005) , 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000176712.01491.98
Daniel J. Piacquadio, Vera B. Morhenn, Stacy R. Smith, Bilateral comparison of the efficacy and tolerability of 3% diclofenac sodium gel and 5% 5-fluorouracil cream in the treatment of actinic keratoses of the face and scalp. Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. ,vol. 5, pp. 156- 159 ,(2006)
Maria Rita Nasca, Giuseppe Micali, Beatrice Nardone, Francesco Lacarrubba, Videodermatoscopy of lentigo maligna treated with imiquimod. Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. ,vol. 7, pp. 1077- 1080 ,(2008)
M. Vatve, J.-P. Ortonne, M.A. Birch-Machin, G. Gupta, Management of field change in actinic keratosis British Journal of Dermatology. ,vol. 157, pp. 21- 24 ,(2007) , 10.1111/J.1365-2133.2007.08268.X
Joel S Shavin, Katharine Furst, Alan Menter, Toivo Rist, Sharon Levy, Guy Webster, Margaret Connolly, Jonathan Weiss, Mark Ling, Janet Roberts, Jerald Sklar, Oscar Hevia, Terry Jones, Effective treatment of actinic keratosis with 0.5% fluorouracil cream for 1, 2, or 4 weeks. Cutis. ,vol. 70, pp. 22- 29 ,(2002)