Dermatologist - Cape May Ct Hse
8 Village Drive
Cape May Ct Hse, NJ 08210
(609) 465-4477
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Remember the Feet

                   When performing a skin exam to rule out skin cancer in a patient,please do not forget to examine the feet including  the Read More

Anti-Cancer Drugs to treat warts?

                 Some  of the most promising new therapies for warts (human papilloma virus-HPV) involves using medications to prevent them from disabling the body's immune Read More

Itchy Crusty Skin Bumps A Sign of Internal Disease?

                                 Prurigo nodularis is a chronic skin disease that causes hard, itchy lumps or nodules to Read More

Skin Cancers-Revisited

                The basal cell carcinoma is the most common of all skin cancers,accounting for 80 percent of non-melanoma skin cancers while the squamous cell Read More

The Hands have it

                                 Dermatologists and other health care practitioners are often visited by a patient with a hand Read More

Nitroglycerin-not just for the heart

                        As a young hospital pharmacist I often dispensed nitroglycerin tablets to relieve angina (chest pain)  caused by coronary artery Read More

Skin Signs of Internal Malignancy

                    Did you know that the new onset of dry skin-called ichthyosis or "fish scale skin" in adult life and which does Read More

Age Spots or a Sign of Internal Cancer

                    As we age many of us (depending on our genetic composition) notice the growth of pigmented or tan,waxy,rough skin growths which Read More

Will the Herpes Virus Cure Malignant Melanoma?

                         We are on the threshold of expanded use of onycolytic viruses for a number of  malignancies including malignant melanoma. Read More

Merkel Cell Carcinoma-Revisited

            Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a very aggressive skin cancer(please see my two previous blogs: "Merkel Cell Carcinoma,"and Merkel cell carcinoma-a blood test to predict Read More

Swallow that sunscreen ?

                                                              Read More

More on Skin Cancer-Did you know that???

            Each year in the U.S. over 5.4 million cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer(NMSC) are treated in more than 3.3 million people.           Read More

Cancer Briefs

         Did you know that non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the United States ?        Breast cancer followed by lung cancer rank # Read More

The Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Vaccine

           To begin with, the current shingles vaccine contains a live,attenuated (weakened) virus which is only about 51 % effective in preventing shingles. Therefore,since it contains a live Read More

Immunotherapy – a new way to fight cancer

             A new type of therapy called immunotherapy Is increasingly being used  to  fight cancer.In essence,this therapy utilizes the body's own cancer-killing cells as a defense mechanism Read More

Rosacea and Cardiovascular Disease

             Rosacea (acne rosacea)  is a common skin disease characterized by redness and  often  in small  pus- filled bumps on the face mainly in adults who tend Read More

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