A case of melanoma that was treated with interferon and developed vitiligo during the course of treatment. It was later found that his disease kept spreading but he still survived better than the case who have not developed this vitiligo.
The scientists are wondering if a appearance of vitiligo could be taken as a positive sign [...]
Vitiligo patients often use tanning beds to complement topical psoralen therapy. An interesting controversy has erupted since the Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), run by the World Health Organization made and incriminating assertion on July 29, 2009, that UV tanning beds are “carcinogenic to humans.” It may be of note that tanning beds [...]
In a study came into view on the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have exposed a link between a precise gene and the skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases.
Vitiligo [...]
The tincture melanin, which is conscientious for skin and hair color in mammals, is formed in specific cells known as melanocytes and then dispersed to other cells. But not each cell in the multifaceted layers of skin becomes pigmented
The question of how melanin is distributed to suitable positions may have been answered by a revision [...]
An inaccessible, congenital Romanian society has a much higher rate of the skin disease vitiligo, signifying a hereditary distinction that may specify vulnerability to the state in a large population, a report in Archives of Dermatology shows in the March addition.
Vitiligo is a chaos in which growing patches of skin, hair and mucous membranes lose [...]
