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What therapies do you most commonly recommend for prevention of NMSC in organ transplant patients?

What patients are good candidates for acitretin? When do you prescribe acitretin for chemoprophylaxis in patients with multiple NMSC?
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Dermatology · Florida State University College of Medicine
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First and foremost, we assess transplant patients and circle, number, and label all their skin cancers so we can catalogue them.

We then prioritize their skin cancers in order to remove them in order of "worst first".

We immediately start field therapy with calcipitrione and 5-FU twice a day for a w...

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