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The carcinogenic potential of tacrolimus ointment beyond immune suppression: a hypothesis creating case report

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, January 2006
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Title
The carcinogenic potential of tacrolimus ointment beyond immune suppression: a hypothesis creating case report
Published in
BMC Cancer, January 2006
DOI 10.1186/1471-2407-6-7
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Authors

Jürgen C Becker, Roland Houben, Claudia S Vetter, Eva B Bröcker

Abstract

Since tacrolimus ointment was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a promising treatment for atopic dermatitis, it has been approved in more than 30 additional countries, including numerous European Union member nations. Moreover, in the current clinical routine the use of this drug is no longer restricted to the approved indication, but has been extended to a wide variety of inflammatory skin diseases including some with the potential of malignant transformation. So far, the side-effects reported from the topical use of tacrolimus have been relatively minor (e.g. burning, pruritus, erythema). Recently, however, the FDA reviewed the safety of topical tacrolimus, which resulted in a warning that the use of calcineurin inhibitors may be associated with an increased risk of cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 23%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Other 4 7%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 12 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 48%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 14 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2016.
All research outputs
#6,921,714
of 22,696,971 outputs
Outputs from BMC Cancer
#1,831
of 8,253 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,131
of 154,551 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Cancer
#4
of 16 outputs
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