Levulan Blue Light Treatment For Skin Cancer

Skin lesions that are not thick due to sun exposure 12 11 2019 2 00 37 pm reviewer.

Levulan blue light treatment for skin cancer.

Pdt may also be called photoradiation therapy phototherapy or photochemotherapy. Lkc303 45 54 female on treatment for less than 1 month patient. I had levulan blue light therapy for skin cancer on my arms. Levulan kerastick aminolevulinic acid hcl for topical solution 20 plus blue light illumination using the blu u blue light photodynamic therapy illuminator is indicated for the treatment of minimally to moderately thick actinic keratoses of the face or scalp or actinic keratosis of the upper extremities.

Photodynamic therapy for skin cancer. Pdt using levulan and a proprietary blue light is currently fda approved for the treatment of early skin precancers called actinic keratoses rough scaly spots generally on sun exposed skin. Blue light therapy treatment is usually a very quick process and is almost always done as an outpatient procedure. The drugs only work after they have been activated or turned on by certain kinds of light.

The exception to this may be photodynamic therapy on high risk areas for cancer. My arms feel smoother than they have in years. 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. Zimmerman at golden state dermatology in walnut creek c.

Really no pain not much in the way of anything negative. I am quite pleased. I discovered a couple of spots on my face that turned out to be pre cancerous. Contraindicated in patients with cutaneous photosensitivity at wavelengths.

Pdt is also known as ala pdt treatment or super blue light. Photodynamic therapy pdt is a treatment that uses special drugs sometimes called photosensitizing agents along with light to kill cancer cells. When combined with light therapy levulan is highly successful in treating the cancerous and precancerous growths. As with any medically significant procedure photodynamic therapy pdt carries its own profile of advantages and risks.