DeWart, DeMole and now—de-cancer by Rolando dela Cruz

Rolando dela Cruz came up with DeBCC that combats skin cancer by reformulating his amazing cream that gets rid of warts and moles without surgery.

Doctors from Philippine General Hospital (PGH) have already certified the DeBCC cream as a viable treatment for basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common type of skin cancer. On Friday, Dela Cruz received the World Intellectual Property Office gold medal for DeBCC as an outstanding invention during the closing ceremonies of the National Inventors Week. When he was a child, Dela Cruz asked his mother why his hands got burnt when he cut a raw cashew nut he found in their backyard.

He was able to formulate a cream to remove warts and moles on the skin and later, a painless treatment for the most common type of skin cancer, which the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) recently hailed as the outstanding invention of the year. A former barber in Caloocan City, Dela Cruz recalled seeing scars on the faces and necks of his clients, and would ask them about the scars.

Full article in: http://www.inquirer.net/specialreports/thegoodnews/view.php?article=20081124-173986&db=1 (Nov. 24, 2008)