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| Skin Cancer Slowed With Skin Treatments |
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| By lmagne@yahoo.com |
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Chemical Peel, and Laser Resurfacing Reduce Number of New Cancers
From the desk of Dr. Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life
Acid
skin peel, and laser resurfacing, all remove precancerous skin growths
and slow skin cancer -- but patients prefer the peel.
Precancerous
growths, which are small areas of discrete roughness to the skin, come
from too much sun. Particularly when a person has a lot of them, they
tend to become squamous cell carcinomas: skin cancer.
Doctors
often burn off these growths, called actinic keratoses, with liquid
nitrogen. But there's evidence of other ways of removing them work at
least as well, and they slow the development of skin cancer.
These
techniques were compared in 24 men. The patients had an average age of
73; all but three had previously had skin cancers removed. Five similar
patients served as an untreated comparison group.
Before
treatment, the 24 men had dozens of precancerous facial growths. The
researchers treated the men with laser resurfacing, or an acid skin
peel. All treatments worked, reducing the number of precancerous skin
growths 89% for the skin peel, and 92% for the laser. The treatments
also seemed to slow the development of new skin cancers.
Left
untreated, the patients would be expected to develop 1.7 new facial
skin cancers a year. That's close to what happened in the untreated
comparison group. But the treated patients had only 0.04 to 0.22 new
skin cancers per year.
In the acid peel arm, one cancer per 26.1
years would be expected, compared with 1 cancer per 6.79 and 4.77 years
in the laser arms. The untreated comparison group had 1.57 new cancers
per year: that is, one new cancer every eight months. The patients who
got the acid peel were much more compliant with treatment, and had
fewer side effects than those treated with laser.
Repeated
treatments may be needed. In any case, patients with precancerous
facial growths must get careful follow-up care. Because the study had
several limitations -- including its small size, infrequent use of
sunscreen, and a control group that was not randomly picked -- the
researchers warn that their findings must be confirmed in larger
studies.
Still, of interest is to note that there are
alternative treatments to skin cancer, and even though reasonably
invasive, they show fewer long-term side effects than the traditional
approaches of chemotherapy or burning. Alternative treatments and
natural healing techniques are available in the book Cancer Free For
Life, available for immediate download at
http://cancer-free-for-life.com
Dr Magne specializes in
spontaneous healing of cancer. With 25 years of research, she compiled
all her discoveries on the causes and origins and diseases and
presented them in her book Cancer Free For Life to help you speed your
healing of cancer. Visit www.Cancer-Free-For-Life.com today for a FREE
report on the 10 Ways to Stop Cancer |
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About the Author: Dr Magne specializes in spontaneous
healing of cancer. With 25 years of research, she compiled all her
discoveries on the causes and origins and diseases and presented them
in her book Cancer Free For Life to help you speed your healing of
cancer. Visit www.Cancer-Free-For-Life.com today for a FREE
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