Once the medication is activated it destroys the precancerous lesions.
Light treatment for skin cancer.
Plus it doesn t cause awful side effects.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.
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.
These can be severe and may include developing skin cancer.
This treatment destroys skin cancer cells with a combination of laser light and drugs that makes cancer cells sensitive to light.
The sun produces a number of different ultraviolet uv rays each with their own wavelength.
What is ultraviolet light treatment.
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.
Blue light therapy is most commonly used to treat sun damage and premalignant or malignant skin cancer growths.
Ultraviolet light is a treatment for a number of skin conditions including a type of skin cancer called t cell lymphoma.
Aminolevulinic acid ala or levulan is a drug that s put right on the skin.
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.
Rlt either alone or in combination with other treatments such as blue light therapy is a potentially effective treatment for acne.
It can actually be used to prevent skin cancer and remove both precancerous skin.
This medication is absorbed preferentially by the precancerous skin cells within one to three hours.
It s used to treat actinic keratosis ak a skin condition that can become cancer and is used only on the face or scalp.
A relatively easy procedure blue light therapy has successfully treated multiple conditions including cancer actinic keratosis a type of superficial skin cancer and acne.