Article: AKs in seniors

Study participants demonstrate high rate of compliance with 5-fluorouracil

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In a recent study, seniors showed unexpectedly high rate of compliance with 0.5 percent five-fluorouracil treatment for actinic keratoses, the study's lead author says.

Chicago - In a small study, seniors showed a very high rate of compliance with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) treatment for actinic keratoses (AKs), the study's lead author says.

"No one has studied compliance in the elderly population when it comes to topical medication, so we wanted to study topical medication adherence in this patient population, and its relation to clinical outcomes," says Brad Yentzer, M. D., senior clinical research fellow, ...

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