A 31-year-old member asked:
How can the body maintain homeostasis with basal cell carcinoma?
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Dr. Ed Friedlanderanswered
Pathology 46 years experience
It doesn't: If you have a teacher who talks about "maintaining homeostasis" when there's a cancer, have a serious talk with that teacher's supervisor. Any cancer, untreated, will eventually kill the owner. There's no question of "the body's natural ability to heal" here. The immune system fights some skin cancers but this never cures without an assist from today's high-tech Rx's.
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A 50-year-old member asked:
Can you tell me how the body maintain homeostasis with basal cell carcinoma?
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Dr. Stephen Strumanswered
55 years experience
Hyaluronic acid: J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2011 Jun;25(6):679-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2010.03851.x. Epub 2010 Sep 16.
Nodular basal cell carcinoma is associated with increased hyaluronan homeostasis.
Tzellos TG1, Kyrgidis A, Vahtsevanos K, Triaridis S, Printza A, Klagas I, Zvintzou E, Kritis A, Karakiulakis G, Papakonstantinou E.
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