{"id":918,"date":"2025-06-18T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:13:59","slug":"actinic-keratosis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/actinic-keratosis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTINIC KERATOSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Actinic= sun-related; &#8220;keratosis&#8221;= rough, thick skin. Up to 15% of these precancerous spots can turn into squamous cell carcinomas, so it is important to treat them. Therapies include liquid nitrogen, chemical peels, 5-Fluorouracil, diclofenac, imiquimod, and ingenol mebutate. Any actinic keratoses  that recur after these treatments should be biopsied to evaluate for the presence of skin cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Actinic= sun-related; &#8220;keratosis&#8221;= rough, thick skin. Up to 15% of these precancerous spots can turn into squamous cell carcinomas, so it is important to treat them. Therapies include liquid nitrogen, chemical peels, 5-Fluorouracil, diclofenac, imiquimod, and ingenol mebutate. Any actinic keratoses that recur after these treatments should be biopsied to evaluate for the presence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloderm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}