Is There Effective Skin Care for Cancer Patients?


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A scene from a recent Milwaukee Race for the Cure. Recently, I’ve received letters asking me about skin care for cancer patients, a topic which touches me personally (my grandmother died of breast cancer in 1994) and which is clinically very relevant, as cancer prevalence is high, with approximately 10 million Americans currently living with the disease. As one can only imagine, the skin of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, and selected pharmaceutical therapies is extremely sensitive, a thought verified by a study in... read more