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Article: Association between topical calcineurin inhibitors, skin cancer?
- Article from:
- Dermatology Times
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Philadelphia - Atopic dermatitis is a chronic or chronically recurring, usually pruritic and clinically variable skin disease associated with atopy.
Mainstay treatments for this skin affliction, which, depending on symptom severity, ranges from systemic and topical corticosteroids, fatty creams and ointments, antihistamines, phototherapy, as well as regulation of diet.
Recent revolutions of therapy for atopic dermatitis have come in the form of two topical agents - pime crolimus and tacrolimus, both of them being topical calcineurin inhibitors. Both of these creams are proving to be very effective in the fight to control and keep atopic dermatitis at bay. Yet, there has been some concern ...