Skin cancer

[Shadrach]

Last year I went to a dermatologist at Siloam to check a spot/mole on my leg. The mole was itchy, dark and had changed over some time. As there are many melanoma cases nowadays in the West, mainly of baby boomers, I was worried. The doctor examined the spot and compared my mole with pictures from a textbook and concluded that it was not melanoma. I wanted her to do a biopsy and send it to the lab for analysis. She did after hesitation. Cut out some flesh and sew the wound. The results came back negative.

This is shocking to hear that people can buy their degrees to become a Doctor! I also went to a couple of Hospitals, I won't say which ones due to backlash to me being a foreigner, and them getting angry and creating trouble for my status in this country! I wonder why do the Doctors shy away from physically working on a persons body? Is it due to them not wanting to be liable for crappy work, or is it incompetence , and not really knowing what to do? The system here of going to a consultation and just talking seems to be inadequate in treating a patient! The person before had to insist to get a lab result is shameful for the medical establishment! I can only hope it improves and people get the help they really need, instead of a lot of run around!

 

[Teabag]

I gave up!

you are playing with your life

 

[Samoerai]

Cream with chemotherapy for basal cell carcinoma
You may receive a chemotherapy cream if the doctor does not excise or otherwise remove the basal cell carcinoma. It is a treatment for low-risk basal cell carcinoma that grows superficially.

The cream contains a medicine that kills cancer cells and does little harm to healthy skin. The drug is called fluorouracil. You should use the cream for a number of weeks.

You apply the cream to all the places where the basal cell carcinoma is located. Your skin may become red, itch or hurt where you apply the cream. Later a wound develops, with swelling and scabs. The wound will have healed one to two weeks after the treatment. Usually no scar is left behind.

The cream contains a medicine: imiquimod.

Source: https://www.kanker.nl/kankersoorten/basaalcelcarcinoom/behandelingen/creme-bij-basaalcelcarcinoom

Fluorouracil - indikasi, dosis, interaksi dan efek samping - Alomedika

Fluorouracil atau 5-fluorourasil merupakan agen kemoterapi, yang termasuk dalam golongan antimetabolit atau antineoplastik. Fluorouracil adalah regimen standar yang digunakan dalam terapi tumor padat multipel, baik sebagai

www.alomedika.com

 

[Shadrach]

Cream with chemotherapy for basal cell carcinoma
You may receive a chemotherapy cream if the doctor does not excise or otherwise remove the basal cell carcinoma. It is a treatment for low-risk basal cell carcinoma that grows superficially.

The cream contains a medicine that kills cancer cells and does little harm to healthy skin. The drug is called fluorouracil. You should use the cream for a number of weeks.

You apply the cream to all the places where the basal cell carcinoma is located. Your skin may become red, itch or hurt where you apply the cream. Later a wound develops, with swelling and scabs. The wound will have healed one to two weeks after the treatment. Usually no scar is left behind.

The cream contains a medicine: imiquimod.

Source: https://www.kanker.nl/kankersoorten/basaalcelcarcinoom/behandelingen/creme-bij-basaalcelcarcinoom

Where can you buy this cream in Bali?

 

[harryopal1]

Where can you buy this cream in Bali?

I had a classic skin cancer spot on my forehead. Papaya has established curative properties and each morning when I include papaya for breakfast I take a piece of the removed skin and rub the inside of the skin on that forehead spot and another on my cheek. Until you find a remedy you might try this but, as others have said, cancer is serious so I hope you find a solution soon.

 

[Samoerai]

Ask any "doktor umum" for the "resep" of this creme.

 

[john madden]

In my experience Efudix and Aldara creams are effective for their respective purposes.

Shadrach, I posted this back in January. Efudex is fluorouracil, Aldara somewhat different. Do some reading about each, perhaps.

 

[Shadrach]

Ask any "doktor umum" for the "resep" of this creme.

I ask the staff at the Sada Jiwa clinic, where I stay, and they said that cream is not available in Indonesia! Do you know a source here to buy it?

 

[Samoerai]

I ask the staff at the Sada Jiwa clinic, where I stay, and they said that cream is not available in Indonesia! Do you know a source here to buy it?

I see, in Indonesia this medicine will likely have a different brand name.
The point is that the cream, what ever brand name, contains the medicine imiquimod.

The cream contains a medicine: imiquimod.

Maybe in Indonesia the cream is called Efudex, as John Madden posted before.

 

[fastpitch17]

Looking through Mims I can not find any topical cream that has been approved. Fluorouracil and 5 fluorouracil are approved but only as injectable from what I have read. Efudex doesn't come up at all.

Many times hospitals and pharmacies have to mix up their own creams. I think of the song "Love Potion No9". Only they can refill.

 

[jstar]

I see, in Indonesia this medicine will likely have a different brand name.
The point is that the cream, what ever brand name, contains the medicine imiquimod.


Maybe in Indonesia the cream is called Efudex, as John Madden posted before.

MIMS or no MIMS, easy to get though…

 

[john madden]

MIMS or no MIMS, easy to get though…

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This, Imiquimod, is marketed as Aldara and is not the same as Efudex/fluorouracil.

 

[john madden]

Looking through Mims I can not find any topical cream that has been approved. Fluorouracil and 5 fluorouracil are approved but only as injectable from what I have read. Efudex doesn't come up at all.

Many times hospitals and pharmacies have to mix up their own creams. I think of the song "Love Potion No9". Only they can refill.

Try the spelling Efudix please.

 

[jstar]

Always do some extra research of course…

https://www.goodrx.com/compare/efudex-vs-aldara

 

[fastpitch17]

Try the spelling Efudix please.

No listings for Efudix either.

 

[john madden]

No listings for Efudix either.

Dunno about MIMS, but both are listed in Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, including Aldara cream in pump dispenser.
After applying fluorouracil for a week you'll feel like you have a swarm of tiny black ants crawling over your face stinging the hell out of you. But, it gets rid of any developing cancers and once you're healed you look somehow cleaner and younger! Almost worth the pain for the cosmetic effect alone.

 

[Shadrach]

Dunno about MIMS, but both are listed in Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, including Aldara cream in pump dispenser.
After applying fluorouracil for a week you'll feel like you have a swarm of tiny black ants crawling over your face stinging the hell out of you. But, it gets rid of any developing cancers and once you're healed you look somehow cleaner and younger! Almost worth the pain for the cosmetic effect alone.

I was informed today by the staff here at the clinic, that this drug at the hospital is available only in an injection form! I'm really not to keen on having some drug, I've never heard of, injected into my body. Issues like how many injections, per week, month, year? And of course BPJS Won't cover it. Any suggestions?

 

[Samoerai]

Believe it or not. Today in the Dutch newspaper.

A well-known chemo cream (5-FU cream) is Efudix, which is used to treat superficial basal cell carcinoma. “Cancer cells divide a little faster,” explains the dermatologist. “And Efudix seeks out those rapidly dividing cells and kills them. So really destroy. The cream itself does that.”

 

[fastpitch17]

Dunno about MIMS, but both are listed in Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, including Aldara cream in pump dispenser.
After applying fluorouracil for a week you'll feel like you have a swarm of tiny black ants crawling over your face stinging the hell out of you. But, it gets rid of any developing cancers and once you're healed you look somehow cleaner and younger! Almost worth the pain for the cosmetic effect alone.

Yes, are available in Aus and NZ. Translating some Indonesian med sites confirms this and adds that the creams are not available here. Be why not listed on mims.

 

[fastpitch17]

I was informed today by the staff here at the clinic, that this drug at the hospital is available only in an injection form! I'm really not to keen on having some drug, I've never heard of, injected into my body. Issues like how many injections, per week, month, year? And of course BPJS Won't cover it. Any suggestions?

Available yes but the injectable is not for skin cancer.