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Article: Tea extracts useful for skin toxicity from radiotherpy.(News You Can Use)(Clinical report)
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- Nevada RNformation
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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This new study intrigued my professional expertise because of a lack of topical care for post radiation skin damage. This study confirms that tea extracts applied topically promotes the repair of skin damaged by radiotherapy, and shed light on the mechanisms involved. The beneficial effects of the extracts stem largely from an ability to attenuate pro-inflammatory signals.
Interrupting radiotherapy to care and manage toxic skin effects can lead to inferior cancer outcomes. So, it is important to have an effective treatment for this problem. According to author Dr. Pajonk, "tea extracts have been used as a folk remedy for sunburns, which led to their use as a ...