Therapeutic Clinical Trials
Afamelanotide is being trialed by Clinuvel as a drug for photoprotection for five indications:
- Erythropoietic protoporphyria
- Polymorphous light eruption
- Phototoxicity associated with systemic photodynamic therapy
- Solar urticaria
- Actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer in patients who have received an organ tranplant
- Vitiligo
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