During the treatment we apply a topical photosensitizing drug to the skin.
Light treatment for skin cancer.
This treatment destroys skin cancer cells with a combination of laser light and drugs that makes cancer cells sensitive to light.
What is ultraviolet light treatment.
It s used to treat actinic keratosis ak a skin condition that can become cancer and is used only on the face or scalp.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.
A special blue light rather than laser light is used to activate this drug.
The sun produces a number of different ultraviolet uv rays each with their own wavelength.
Blue light therapy is most commonly used to treat sun damage and premalignant or malignant skin cancer growths.
One type of uv treatment you might have for cancer is called puva psoralen plus ultraviolet a.
Ultraviolet light is a treatment for a number of skin conditions including a type of skin cancer called t cell lymphoma.
Plus it doesn t cause awful side effects.
These can be severe and may include developing skin cancer.
Photodynamic therapy for skin cancer first your doctor may need to remove any crust or scale from the area of your skin that needs to be treated.
Laser and pulsed light therapies work by causing controlled damage to the.
The medication is then activated by blue light which is illuminated for about 17 minutes.
Rlt either alone or in combination with other treatments such as blue light therapy is a potentially effective treatment for acne.
Rlt is different from laser or intense pulsed light ipl therapies because it doesn t cause damage to the skin surface.
This medication is absorbed preferentially by the precancerous skin cells within one to three hours.
Once the medication is activated it destroys the precancerous lesions.
Eisen director of aesthetic dermatology at the university of california davis health system said photodynamic therapy involves placing a light sensitive liquid medication on a patient s skin.
A special cream with photosensitizing agents will.