Treatment of actinic keratoses
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illions of vacationers deliberately expose themselves to excessive UV radiation. As a result, the risk of UVrelated skin damage is rapidly increasing. Sun worshippers thus have to expect an increased risk for actinic keratoses (a carcinoma in situ). Most recent estimates prove that about 8 million Germans suffer from actinic keratoses. There is an estimated prevalence of about 15 percent among individuals over 40 and one out of two of the persons over 60 is affected with such skin lesions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008