As for HS being an autoimmune disease, that's how I feel about it, however even in dermatology circles the jury still seems to be out on it. A quick search on PubMed usually has 2/5 of articles on HS being about surgery (treating it as a skin condition only), 1/5 about antibiotics (treating it as bacterial only), 1/5 about its relation to cancer (is cancer considered an autoimmune condition, or is it just cancer?), and 1/5 about using various TNF-alpha blockers (treating it as autoimmune).
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Date: 2006-11-15 10:00 pm (UTC)As for HS being an autoimmune disease, that's how I feel about it, however even in dermatology circles the jury still seems to be out on it. A quick search on PubMed usually has 2/5 of articles on HS being about surgery (treating it as a skin condition only), 1/5 about antibiotics (treating it as bacterial only), 1/5 about its relation to cancer (is cancer considered an autoimmune condition, or is it just cancer?), and 1/5 about using various TNF-alpha blockers (treating it as autoimmune).