These can be severe and may include developing skin cancer.
Light treatment for skin cancer.
Blue light therapy is most commonly used to treat sun damage and premalignant or malignant skin cancer growths.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.
During the treatment we apply a topical photosensitizing drug to the skin.
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.
A special cream with photosensitizing agents will.
Ultraviolet light is a treatment for a number of skin conditions including a type of skin cancer called t cell lymphoma.
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.
The sun produces a number of different ultraviolet uv rays each with their own wavelength.
What is ultraviolet light treatment.
Rlt is different from laser or intense pulsed light ipl therapies because it doesn t cause damage to the skin surface.
The medication is then activated by blue light which is illuminated for about 17 minutes.
This treatment destroys skin cancer cells with a combination of laser light and drugs that makes cancer cells sensitive to light.
A special blue light rather than laser light is used to activate this drug.
One type of uv treatment you might have for cancer is called puva psoralen plus ultraviolet a.
Plus it doesn t cause awful side effects.
It s used to treat actinic keratosis ak a skin condition that can become cancer and is used only on the face or scalp.
It can actually be used to prevent skin cancer and remove both precancerous skin.
Once the medication is activated it destroys the precancerous lesions.
Laser and pulsed light therapies work by causing controlled damage to the.
A relatively easy procedure blue light therapy has successfully treated multiple conditions including cancer actinic keratosis a type of superficial skin cancer and acne.