In 2007, Australian biopharmaceutical company Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited began clinical trials with an experimental treatment, a melanocyte-stimulating hormone called afamelanotide ( formerly CUV1647 ) to provide photoprotection for organ transplant patients against squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and actinic keratosis.
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More than 1500 different disorders of the skin exist, including cutaneous eruptions ( " rashes " ) and neoplasms ( dermatological oncology deals with pre-cancers, such as an actinic keratosis; and cancers, including both benign masses, and malignant cancers-such as basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and most dangerously, malignant melanoma ).
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Afamelanotide ( formerly the skin including erythropoietic protoporphyria ( EPP ), polymorphous light eruption ( PMLE ), solar urticaria ( SU ), phototoxicity associated with systemic photodynamic therapy and actinic keratosis ( AK ) and squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer in patients who have received organ transplants, vitiligo and Hailey Hailey disease.
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IPL is employed in the treatment of a range of dermatological conditions including photodamage induced dyspigmentation and vascular changes, poikiloderma of Civatte, rosacea, acne vulgaris, sebaceous gland hyperplasia, broken capillaries / telangiectases, vascular lesions ( small blood vessels ), pigmented lesions ( freckles, liver spots, birth marks ), melasma, actinic keratosis, photorejuvenation, basal cell carcinoma, and Bowen's disease ( squamous cell carcinoma ).
