Just FDA approved, it treats precancerous actinic keratosis. A lesion is doused with a photosensitizer, then exposed to blue light. A new study showed that Dimericine lotion, awaiting FDA approval, slashed the occurrence of skin cancer. In a recent small study, these heated pads were applied daily to precancerous skin tumors. After five months, the tumors of all but one patient went into remission.
Heat kills cancerous cells on the skin s surface.
New studies have shown that this derivative of the milk thistle plant inhibits tumors by 92 percent. 3 Things That Don't Mix With the Sun Cigarettes. A new study found that smokers are three times as likely as nonsmokers to develop squamous-cell skin cancers. Birth control pills. Antidepressants and antibiotics up risk, too.