Improved treatment for cancer patients: Topical steroid cream

Researchers have shown how a topical steroid cream frequently used  to treat common skin conditions, can be used to improve dermatitis in cancer patients. Radiotherapy uses X-rays to destroy cancer cells but this can often lead to a severe skin reaction involving redness, pain and blistering similar to sunburn. The trial of this cream -- mometasone furoate--was so successful that the patients in the research will now be offered this instead of the existing treatment.

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