Hello everyone!
I have been taking Rapamycin for about a year.
My dog is enrolled in a program to take it but I stopped it because she is a breed that is known to have very high instances of carcinogenic melanoma. If my reading is correct, Rapamycin can reduce non-carcinogenic melanomas but not metastatic ones. Is giving my dog Rapamycin to my dog a bad idea?
Secondly, my wife gets skin tags (acrochordons) and melanoma risk is supposedly not a correlated factor however, I thought I would ask here incase someone has seen any related information that might influence her decision to start rapamycin.
Thank you!!
KarlT
#3
Skin tags are benign growths that can be removed if desired. I doubt Rapa has any impact.
Melanoma is a serious skin cancer that is never benign. I doubt Rapa has any relation to causation.
There is no relationship between skin tags and Melanoma.
Davin8r
#4
If the rapa caused or worsened insulin resistance, it could in theory secondarily cause or exacerbate skin tags, but real-world significance unknown.
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