University of Queensland researchers have discovered immunotherapy, when used to treat people with advanced cancers, also helps reduce sunspots and skin cancers by at least 65 per cent.
Over 12 months, researchers monitored 23 patients receiving immunotherapy for unrelated cancers and found the treatment also targeted cancerous and precancerous sunspots of the skin – causing some to disappear completely.
Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani from UQ’s Frazer Institute said they monitored patients’ actinic keratoses – precancerous lesions commonly known as sunspots, and keratinocyte carcinomas – a non-melanoma skin cancer and the most common type of skin cancer.
The number of skin lesions on patient’s forearms were counted before the immunotherapy started, and then again at 3, 6 and 12-month…