Melisa Hunis and Adrian Hunis*

School of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

*Corresponding Author: Adrian Hunis, School of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Received: June 19, 2023; Published: July 01, 2023

Abstract

The new treatments for tumor diseases have been for about 20 years, a huge advance in medicine in general and oncology in particular. With target therapies, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, monoclonal antibodies, antitumor vaccines and new molecules under investigation, unthinkable responses are being achieved, for example, in melanoma, lung cancer, breast cancer and other tumors, what we do not fully know yet is the toxicity of these treatments.

The skin, the largest organ of the human being, is no stranger to this toxicity.

In this article we review this toxicity, its pathophysiology and its treatment.

 Keywords: Lung Cancer; Breast Cancer; Oncology

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Citation

Citation: Melisa Hunis and Adrian Hunis. “Skin Toxicity of Target Therapies, Immunotherapy and New Cancer Vaccines" Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 7.6 (2023): 01-07.

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Copyright: © 2023 Melisa Hunis and Adrian Hunis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.