Leucoderma more often called vitiligo in western world is loss of pigmentation in skin.
In which irregular shaped patches appear on one or more parts of the skin. In India and other Asian countries rather than vitiligo this skin condition is more popular with name “leucoderma”. Leucoderma also include in some complex problems because of the lack of knowledge about the core and causes of the disease.
Leukoderma is also used for this skin condition, as mentioned at wikipedia and Anti-Vitiligo http://www.antivitiligo.com/frequently-asked-questions.html
About 2% to 3% of total population is suffering from this skin condition. A cure of this skin condition normally take a long period of time. In most of the cases it also affects the emotional state of the patient more hardly than its skin. Because patients have to suffer a lot of stress as due to its cosmetic look.
It is right that it is non infectious or transmissible skin disease. Nor it is a pre cancerous disease. But some researcher or skin specialist said due to the lack of melanin a patient have risk to be affected by skin cancer. Because this substance has ability to absorb uvb and uva light which causes skin cancer.
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