oh forgot, you can get cortisone injections (not as bad as it seems) which, after a few treatments, reduce the size of the keloid but not make it disappear completely. No idea of the cost though so it would be best to consult a dermatologist. You can also get laser treatment which really helps.

AW Tar-Choon, M.D.,Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer, StemLife, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Currently Dr Aw is a Professor of Chemical Pathology at the Monash University School of Medicine at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Honorary Professor of Medicine Monash University School of Medicine at Melbourne Australia. He is also a senior consultant (part-time) in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the 700-bed Changi General Hospital in Singapore.
Dr. Aw graduated from the University of Malaysia Medical School in 1976. Thereafter he trained in internal medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and King’s College Hospital & Medical School, London, U.K. He underwent further training in chemical pathology at the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA from 1981-1984. He has specialist certifications in internal medicine from NUS and the Royal College of Physicians (U.K). He has additional specialist certification in pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and the Academy of Medicine Singapore. From 1980 to 2006, Dr Aw was a faculty member at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School and rose to the rank of full Professor in Pathology. He served as Vice-Dean of the medical school from 1994-2002. He was the Chief of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the NUS Medical School’s National University Hospital from 1988-2002. He was also the Medical Director of NUS’ 400-bed Alexandra campus hospital from 1995-2000. He has held visiting professorships at several institutions - the Department of Pathology at the National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine at Tainan in Taiwan in 1989, the Department of Clinical Pathology at the William Beaumont Hospital at Royal Oak in Michigan in 1995 and the University of Malaya Medical School at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in 2003.
Dr. Aw has published 117 professional articles (including 12 books / book chapters on clinical chemistry, endocrinology, and health policy) and 278 abstracts. Over the last 18 years he has delivered over 300 seminars on various aspects of Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology, Health Policy and Stem Cell medicine in 21 countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam.
Dr. Aw co-founded a stem cell medicine company, StemLife, which commenced operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2002. Currently he serves as its Chief Medical Officer.