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- Title
Consequences of using escharotic agents as primary treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer.
- Authors
McDaniel, Shana; Goldman, Glenn D
- Abstract
The use of escharotic or caustic pastes to treat skin cancer is based on the centuries-old observation that selected minerals and plant extracts may be used to destroy certain skin lesions. Zinc chloride and Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot) are 2 agents that are used as part of the Mohs chemosurgery fixed-tissue technique. The use of escharotics without surgery has been discredited by allopathic medicine but persists and is promoted among alternative practitioners. Patients may now purchase "herbal supplements" for the primary self-treatment of skin cancer, and physicians will see patients who elect this therapy for their skin cancers.
- Publication
Archives of dermatology, 2002, Vol 138, Issue 12, p1593
- ISSN
0003-987X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archderm.138.12.1593