Eczema can protect a person from skin cancer

In the presence of an unpleasant skin disease eczema, it appears, It may be a significant plus. British scientists have found that victims of this disease significantly less likely to collide with skin cancer.

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Patients eczema   there is an increased immune response system which dries their skin otshelushivaya one layer after another. Together with these layers die and potentially carcinogenic cells which can be cause of Skin Cancer . That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from King's College London, watching the health of laboratory mice.

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Excessive reaction of the immune system in eczema   leads to the fact that the skin becomes dry and vulnerable to all sorts of infections. Yet it also protects the skin from the deadly malignant melanoma - the most severe varieties Skin Cancer . Previously, science has assumed that the victim may eczema have additional protection against melanoma, but it was very hard to come by final conclusion, since drugs used to treat eczema, They may also affect cancer.

Now, British scientists have shown for the first time that the called defect of skin allergic reaction to protect people from cancer. In medicine in Currently there are no effective drugs for eczema, but some moisturizers skin cream emulsions help eczema, especially when they are used in combination with steroid creams to combat inflammatory processes.

Results of the study published in the journal eLife. Their scientists conducted experiments on mice, and they proved that a violation of the epidermal barrier protects the genetically-programmed mice from tumor formation. (READ MORE)

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