Is Efudix cream an antibiotic? No, it's a topical chemotherapy agent
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Despite its use on skin conditions, Efudix cream is a topical chemotherapy agent, not an antibiotic. It contains the active ingredient fluorouracil (5-FU), which treats certain precancerous growths and skin cancers by targeting rapidly dividing cells, a fundamentally different mechanism from drugs that fight bacteria.
