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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2000;283:2377-2378.

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San Francisco—Recent advances in dermatology include progress toward gene therapy; better treatment for AIDS-induced skin disorders, hemangiomas, and skin cancers; new lasers for use on pigmented lesions and for skin resurfacing; and improvements in soft tissue–augmentation surgery.

Leading investigators in dermatology's main specialty areas reviewed major progress and outlined new directions for research and treatment at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) here in March.

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Better understanding of basic immunology has generated important insights into the mechanism of carcinogenesis, said Richard Granstein, MD, of Cornell University's Weill Medical College, speaking for the Society of Investigative Dermatology. A number of immune cell derangements induced by ultraviolet radiation, he said, allow an incipient skin cancer to arise and grow. "This is certainly true if you're a mouse," he added, "and almost certainly true if you're a human." Work is in progress, he said, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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