My doctor has prescribed a chemo cream to treat several stubborn actinic keratosis areas on my face. I am supposed to use the cream on my entire face twice a day for 28 days. (Eeek !). My understanding is that the cream somehow gets into the cancerous cells (how?) and disrupts the cells ability to reproduce (how?). For a bonus..can you tell me why this process pushes all those nasty cells to the surface to die….making my face look like a living mutant zombie who didn’t fare well during the apocalypse! (Pic in comments)
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One treatment for actinic keratosis is called fluorouracil
this drug inhibits your cells ability to make DNA parts so it will be unable to replicate its DNA and divide into more cells.
Chemo drugs for the most part cannot target cells, but since this is a topical cream it is heavily focused on the area of interest and not inside the body
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