{"id":25,"date":"2021-02-02T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dermtruths.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:43:13","slug":"bogus-natural-skin-cancer-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dermtruths.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/bogus-natural-skin-cancer-remedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Natural Skin Cancer Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-25\" data-postid=\"25\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-25 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n<p>If you look online right now and search for skin cancer remedies, you will find many products that have no scientific basis to support their use.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these products cause a severe reaction in the skin killing anything in its way.&nbsp; These are caustic agents that literally burn a hole in your skin.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these products cause a severe reaction in the skin killing anything in its way.<\/p>\n<h2>Standard Skin Cancer Treatments<\/h2>\n<p>These treatments have been studied and researched and have been proven to be effective ways to treat skin cancers.<\/p>\n<p>They each have positive and negatives, and those differences will be explained in another article.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currettage and Electrodessication<\/li>\n<li>Excision<\/li>\n<li>Mohs Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Prescription called Imiquimod<\/li>\n<li>Radiation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currettage and Electrodessication is a way to destroy a skin cancer by scraping the cancer with a special tool and burning the skin. &nbsp;This procedure is done by a dermatologist with years of training. The dermatologist can treat the cancer with 90% certainty.<\/p>\n<h2>Bogus Skin Cancer Treatments That Create A Burn<\/h2>\n<p>These are caustic agents that literally burn a hole in your skin. &nbsp;Just because an ingredient is found in nature doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/dermtruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Poison-sign-1024x765.png\" alt=\"Toxic Skin Cancer Treatments\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\"><\/p>\n<p>Burning a hole in your skin cancer doesn\u2019t necessarily cure it and can make things worse by hiding bits of cancer underneath a scar.<\/p>\n<p>This can lead to dire and drastic disfiguring surgery when these cancers show up again, sometimes after hiding underneath scars years later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/dermtruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Keloid-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You could have a scar similar to this and still have skin cancer present underneath or at the edges of the scar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Black Salve and Indian Mud<\/h2>\n<p>Some of these products such as black salve and Indian mud have zinc chloride paste in them.&nbsp; Zinc chloride paste was the chemical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederic_E._Mohs\">Dr. Frederick Mohs<\/a> used in the 1940s through early 1960s to treat skin cancer with something called Mohs chemosurgery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/dermtruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSC06524-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Zinc Chloride Paste\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>This chemical will eat right through the bone and into the brain if you allow it.<\/p>\n<p>These are not to be used in unskilled hands, and you should avoid trusting what you read online over your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abderm.org\/\">board certified dermatologist<\/a> or dermatology provider and their advice.<\/p>\n<h2>Do you know what you&#8217;re treating?<\/h2>\n<p>We have had a number of cases of partially treated skin cancers that have produced disfiguring scarring from these products including some patients who never really had a definite skin cancer.<\/p>\n<p>They used this chemical on a skin lesion without any professional advice as to what they were treating.<\/p>\n<p>This can lead to terrible over or under treatment of potentially benign lesions or very serious cancers.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, one would not want to treat a malignant melanoma with this chemical which could lead to your death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/dermtruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Melanoma_2-e1484006387333-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"Melanoma\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\"><\/p>\n<p>Proper treatment of melanoma, particularly early diagnosis by a board certified dermatologist or dermatology provider, is critical to prevent death from this disease.<\/p>\n<h2>You May Be Treating A Benign Lesion<\/h2>\n<p>There are many unusual growths that occur on the skin which do not need treatment at all.<\/p>\n<p>Using these sorts of chemicals is unnecessary on these lesions.<\/p>\n<p>Any changing lesion, whether it is brown, black, flesh-colored or red, should be examined by an expert prior to embarking upon any sort of treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Natural Remedies for Skin Cancer Do Not Work<\/h2>\n<p>In summary, avoid so-called holistic or natural remedies for skin cancer.&nbsp; These have not been studied; they essentially are like putting acid on your skin and kill cells in an indiscriminate non-specific way resulting in scarring and sometimes disfigurement and do not necessarily treat the cancer completely.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look online right now and search for skin cancer remedies, you will find many products that have no scientific basis to support their use. Most of these products cause a severe reaction in the skin killing anything in its way.&nbsp; These are caustic agents that literally burn a hole in your skin. 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