New Patient Appointments

Choose from one of our locations.

Existing Patient Appointments

Book through the Patient Portal to avoid reentering your information.

Actinic Keratoses

October 8, 2018
An actinic keratosis (AK), also known as a solar keratosis, is a crusty, scaly growth caused by damage from exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. You'll often see the plural, “keratoses,” because there is seldom just one. Though the vast majority of actinic keratoses remain benign, they reveal that you have sustained sun damage and could develop any kind of skin cancer, especially the second most common form of the disease, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). If you have one AK, you may develop others. The more AKs that remain untreated, and the older these lesions are, the greater the chance that one or more may become an SCC. AKs can be treated by Photodynamic Therapy.

Archives

Join Our Mailing List

Subscribe
X