Blue light therapy treatment is usually a very quick process and is almost always done as an outpatient procedure.
Blue light treatment for skin cancer video.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.
You may feel stinging or burning while this is done.
On average blue light therapy eliminates 40 to 75 of actinic keratosis per treatment.
Blue light therapy also called blue light treatment or blue light photodynamic therapy is a treatment performed by dermatologists to combat pre cancerous lesions like actinic keratosis.
Photodynamic therapy pdt is a two stage treatment that combines light energy with a drug photosensitizer designed to destroy cancerous and precancerous cells after light activation.
I discovered a couple of spots on my face that turned out to be pre cancerous.
For internal cancers delivering the light to the desired area is more challenging.
The exception to this may be photodynamic therapy on high risk areas for cancer.
The most common areas that we treat are the face ears and 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.
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.
For surface skin treatments the light is directly applied to the area of the skin where the photosensitizer drug has been applied such as face scalp arms etc.
This video is going to give you my personal experience with the levulan blue light photodynamic therapy treatment 1 to treat basal cell carcinoma as well as any precancerous spots i may have.
Zimmerman at golden state dermatology in walnut creek c.
Photosensitizers are activated by a specific wavelength of light energy usually from a laser.