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.
Once the medication is activated it destroys the precancerous lesions.
A relatively easy procedure blue light therapy has successfully treated multiple conditions including cancer actinic keratosis a type of superficial skin cancer and acne.
Laser and pulsed light therapies work by causing controlled damage to the.
During the treatment we apply a topical photosensitizing drug to the skin.
The medication is then activated by blue light which is illuminated for about 17 minutes.
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.
One type of uv treatment you might have for cancer is called puva psoralen plus ultraviolet a.
This medication is absorbed preferentially by the precancerous skin cells within one to three hours.
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.
The sun produces a number of different ultraviolet uv rays each with their own wavelength.
A special cream with photosensitizing agents will.
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.
A special blue light rather than laser light is used to activate this drug.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.
It s used to treat actinic keratosis ak a skin condition that can become cancer and is used only on the face or scalp.
This treatment destroys skin cancer cells with a combination of laser light and drugs that makes cancer cells sensitive to light.
Plus it doesn t cause awful side effects.