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Three packets of cream will be defined as one dose or application. The cream should be applied to the face prior to normal sleeping hours (it is readily absorbed) and left on the skin for 6-10 hours (i.e. overnight). Rest periods will be allowed if bothersome side effects occur.",[13],"Drug: 5% Imiquimod cream",{"label":15,"type":16,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Placebo Vehicle Control Cream","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","The placebo vehicle control cream will be a virtually identical cream (to the Imiquimod cream) that contains no Imiquimod. This cream will be applied once daily to the face in a thin layer for 12 weeks. Three packets of cream will be defined as one dose or application. The cream should be applied to the face prior to normal sleeping hours (it is readily absorbed) and left on the skin for 6-10 hours (i.e. overnight). 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After 2 months, these patients can be included.\n* IMQ therapy on the face in the past year, although such therapy in the more distant past is not an exclusion.\n* Suspicious skin lesions suggestive of any type of skin cancer present on the face at the initial exam conducted for the study must be removed and have another skin exam to confirm the facial skin cancer is cleared for 1 month prior to randomization so that the investigators can be confident that skin cancer lesions that arise during the trial are new.\n* Currently receiving or received in the past two months: immune checkpoint inhibitor, hedgehog pathway inhibitor, or oral capecitabine.\n* History of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma within the past year, but low-grade prostate cancer, patch stage CTCL, breast cancer, and history of solid hematologic cancer deemed to be in remission will be included.\n* Genetic disorder associated with very high basal cell skin cancer risk (i.e., basal cell nevus syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosum) because prevention efforts with IMQ may have dramatically different efficacy in these patients compared to the general high-risk population.\n* Solid organ or bone marrow transplant recipient such as renal, hepatic, or cardiac transplant because these patients are at increased risk of KC (much greater risk of SCC than BCC) and the associated immunodeficiency may affect the effectiveness of IMQ\n* Radiation therapy to the face\n* Known allergy to IMQ or cream vehicle\n* Woman currently pregnant or breast feeding\n* Woman of childbearing potential unwilling to use birth control\n* Judged by investigator to have a very high mortality risk within a year due to co-morbid illness\n* Judged by investigator to be unlikely to comply with protocol requirements\n* Judged by investigator not to be competent to provide informed consent\n* Unable to communicate in English\n* Enrolled in another therapeutic interventional trial",true,"ALL","18 Years",{"count":73,"type":74},1630,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[77],"PHASE3","This is an intent-to-treat, parallel design, multicenter randomized trial and the primary intervention is a double-blind comparison of Imiquimod (IMQ) vs. placebo cream for preventing basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin on the face at one year and over 3 years after therapy. Participants will apply the IMQ or placebo cream to the face daily at bedtime for 12 weeks. This study will recruit 1630 Veterans at high risk of BCC from 17 VA medical centers.",[80],"Basal Cell Carcinoma",[80,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94],"chemoprevention","imiquimod","facial skin cancer","skin cancer prevention","squamous cell carcinoma","keratinocyte carcinoma","actinic keratosis","quality of life","side effects","treatment compliance","automated text messaging","cost comparison and cost effectiveness","implementation science","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-05-07",{"date":98,"type":99},"2026-05-08","ACTUAL",{"date":101,"type":74},"2026-08-03",{"date":103,"type":74},"2032-08-03",{"name":5,"class":6},1]