The cost
of treating skin cancer exceeds half a billion dollars a year in Canada, so there's an opportunity for significant cost and time savings.
Dr. Cognetta has extensive experience in diagnosing and
treating skin cancer patients in Florida, and he has noted that hydrochlorothiazide is suspiciously prevalent among his patients, particularly among so - called «catastrophic patients,» who can have several hundred skin cancers each.
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Trametinib is used to
treat skin cancer and was chosen for its ability to inhibit Ras signalling as part of the «Ras - Erk - ETS» cell pathway.
«The use of oncolytic viruses [viruses genetically engineered to destroy tumor cells] is at an advanced stage, especially to
treat skin cancer and myeloma [bone marrow cancer],» Catharino said.
«The promising results show that personalised cancer vaccines designed to
treat skin cancer are safe to use, and that for some patients, they can successfully harness the power of the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells,» Pickworth added.