Acid skin peel, laser resurfacing, and a chemotherapy cream all remove precancerous skin growths and slow cancer - but patients prefer the peel.

Precancerous growths, small areas of discrete roughness to the skin, come from too much sun, note VA researcher Basil M. Hantash, MD, PhD, and colleagues. Particularly when a person has a lot of them, they tend to become squamous cell carcinomas: skin cancerskin cancer.

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