Scarring or loss of color can complicate both these treatments.

Complications The most common complications of boils are scarring and infection or abscess of the skin, spinal cord, brain, kidneys, or other organs.

Risk factors can include any of the above as well as obesity, smoking, previous scarring, surgical error, cancer, chronic use of corticosteroids and increased abdominal pressure.

Seminoma As an adjuvant treatment, use of chemotherapy as an alternative to radiation therapy in the treatment of seminoma is increasing, because radiation therapy appears to have more significant long term side effects (for example, internal scarring, increased risks of secondary malignancies, etc.).

SEATTLE The recent pledge of 350 million by African leaders and the international community to help the more than 13 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa underscores the need for continued attention and funding to prevent this tragedy from claiming and scarring even more lives.