Common weed petty surge as a skin cancer treatment (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter, BBC News

Sap from the common garden weed petty spurge appears to treat non-melanoma skin cancers, experts are reporting in the British Journal of Dermatology.

But they tell patients not to "try it at home" since the treatment is still experimental and can irritate the skin.

Their study involved 36 patients with non-melanoma skin cancer lesions.

Although not the most serious form of skin cancer, non-melanoma lesions are very common, accounting for a third of all cancers detected in the UK.

They include basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and usually occur in older people.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12275507

[liberal N proud]

1. They tell patients not to try it at home because the pharmaceuticals need to make money from it.

If someone discovers a miracle cure, the drug companies can't have that spread to everyone, because it would hurt their chances to grotesquely grow profit

[laconicsax]

2. Or, because avoiding medical care in favor of an unproven treatment is dangerous?

:shrug:

[LeftishBrit]

3. Non-melanoma skin cancer is usually treated by minor surgery, not drugs

So 'pharma' won't have a strong interest in this disorder.

[trotsky]

4. Threefer madness, two posts early!

Whoa!