A special blue light rather than laser light is used to activate this drug.
Blue light for skin cancer treatment.
Insurances typically cover the full cost of the treatment but this varies by insurance.
Blue light therapy is an fda approved in office treatment for actinic keratoses precancerous lesions.
Blue light therapy for actinic keratosis can help treat and reduce the number of precancers potentially reducing the number of full fledged skin cancers and helping in photo rejuvenation.
You may feel stinging or burning while this is done.
Plus it doesn t cause awful side effects.
During the next stage of this treatment your doctor will focus a special blue or red light onto the area of your cancer for about 15 minutes.
Pdt is also known as ala pdt treatment or super blue light.
Researchers are always looking for new pdt drugs and new ways to give them.
During the treatment we apply a topical photosensitizing drug to the skin.
A relatively easy procedure blue light therapy has successfully treated multiple conditions including cancer actinic keratosis a type of superficial skin cancer and acne.
Blue light treatment is a non invasive procedure.
It can actually be used to prevent skin cancer and remove both precancerous skin.
The reaction from the chemicals oxygen and the blue light is what destroys the precancerous or cancerous skin cells.
Your dermatologist will apply a chemical solution to the affected areas and subsequently expose that same area to blue light.
Blue light therapy is most commonly used to treat sun damage and premalignant or malignant skin cancer growths.
In 2014 in the journal pigment cell melanoma research researchers compared skin exposed to blue light with skin exposed to uvb rays the type of ultraviolet light that s most closely associated.
More commonly known as photodynamic therapy pdt blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.