Table3: Cure rates in some previous studies on bleomycin in treating limb warts
Authors	Cure rate	Further information
Agius	89.9%	Intralesional bleomycin for 47 patients with 138 plantar warts resistant to cryotherapy.
Amer et al	67.8%	injected intralesionally in 38 patients & 143 warts
Bunney et al	76%	Carried out on 59 matched pairs of hand warts in 24 patients, compared with a normal saline placebo injected into the paired warts in the same patient.
Munn et al	92%	Bleomycin solution was dropped on to the wart and 'pricked' into the wart.
shelly	92%	Multiple puncture technique using a bifurcated vaccination needle to introduce bleomycin into 258 warts in 66 patients
Hayes and O'Keefe	76%	More dilute concentrations of bleomycin injected in 62 warts of 26 patients
Sbtebins et al	82%	Intralesional bleomycin in 33 patients