My friend (who had large B-cell lymphoma, has follicular lymphoma and colon cancer) has a little psoriasis also, that comes and goes --and allergies, and other autoimmune issues.
Because of what I've seen, chemotherapeutic and targeted therapies help against psoriasis, very often. It has sense, since in psoriasis there are cells (skin cells) dividing too fast (it's the result of a speeding up in the growth cycle of skin cells), as in cancer. My friend was told by her onc that capecitabine (Xeloda) was tried as an agent against psoriasis. Months ago, I was curious about it, searched and found this 2006 patent:
Method of orally treating inflammatory skin conditions with prodrugs of 5-fluorouracil http://www.pharmcast.com/Patents100/Yr2 ... 041106.htm (which you could translate: Psoriasis treatament with capecitabine (Xeloda)).
And since she's about to start Avastin and I'm her cheerleader
, I was looking for good info for her and found this:
Complete remission of psoriasis following bevacizumab therapy for colon cancer (which you could translate: maybe that Avastin will get rid of the psoriasis also!)
Clin Exp Dermatol. 2009 Jul;34(5):e202-4. Epub 2008 Dec 9.
Complete remission of psoriasis following bevacizumab therapy for colon cancerAkman A, Yilmaz E, Mutlu H, Ozdogan M.
SourceDepartment of Dermatology and Venerology, School of Medicine Antalya, Antalya, Turkey.
aakman@akdeniz.edu.trAbstractBevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is used to treat several cancers. Currently, experience with anti-VEGF treatment for psoriasis is limited, and no published reports on this use exist. We describe a patient with metastatic colon cancer and psoriasis who experienced complete remission of psoriasis during treatment with bevacizumab and combination chemotherapy without any other treatment for psoriasis. These data suggest that bevacizumab may be a promising therapeutic agent for the treatment of psoriasis.