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Extracts Repair Radiotherapy Skin Damage Posted: December 8,
2006 Findings from a new study confirm that tea extracts applied
to the skin promote the repair of damage from radiotherapy, and
shed light on the mechanisms involved in the injury. The
beneficial effects of the extracts are mostly from their ability
to attenuate the body signals that trigger inflammation.
Radiotherapy interruption because of toxic effects to the skin
may compromise the outcome of cancer treatment, lead author Dr.
Frank Pajonk, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
told Reuters Health. "So, it is important to have an effective
treatment for this problem." According to Pajonk, "tea extracts
have been used as a folk remedy for sunburns, which led to their
use as a treatment for radiation-induced skin toxicity. They
have proven quite successful in this regard, but there were no
scientific data" to clarif