Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer

Spending a lot of time in the sun can cause actinic keratoses

Spending a lot of time in the sun can cause actinic keratoses

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Brown spots on skin caused by sun exposure can be removed using medicated creams, a process that may help prevent future cancers.

Actinic keratoses – also known as sun spots – are brown or pink scaly marks caused by UV rays. In the past, it’s been possible to have sun spots removed by freezing them off with liquid nitrogen, but the pain associated with this procedure meant that only one or two could be taken off at a time.

But a range of creams are …