Topical cream is a standard treatment for basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer worldwide. If your healthcare provider has prescribed the topical medication Efudex ...

Immunotherapy. 2012;4(9):939-945. The percentage of patients achieving complete clearance of their AKs in the 5-FU group was 19, 28.2 and 52.6% in the 1-, 2- and 4-week treatment groups, respectively.

Since the 1950s, a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil has been used to treat many types of cancer, including blood ...

Fluorouracil interferes with the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and to a lesser extent inhibits the formation of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Since DNA and RNA are essential for cell division ...

The medication names of the current FDA-approved topical agents for the treatment of AK including Carac® (Sanofi-Aventis, NJ, USA), Efudex® (Valeant, CA, USA) and Fluoroplex® (Allergan ...

Researchers analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 76,805 patients to identify variants in 4 genes that are associated ...