Clascoterone Cream Safe, Effective for Acne Treatment

THURSDAY, April 23, 2020 -- Clascoterone cream, 1 percent, appears to be safe and effective for the treatment of acne, according to a study published online April 22 in JAMA Dermatology. Adelaide Hebert, M.D., from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and colleagues assessed the safety and efficacy of clascoterone cream, 1 percent, a novel topical androgen receptor inhibitor, in two phase 3 clinical trials (including a total 1,440 patients) in which patients were randomly assigned to clascoterone cream, 1 percent, or a vehicle cream. The researchers found that at week 12, the treatment success rates with clascoterone cream were 18.4 and 20.3 percent versus 9 and 6.5 percent with vehicle creams, respectively. In both intervention groups at week 12, there was a...

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