Levulan Blue Light Treatment For Skin Cancer

When combined with light therapy levulan is highly successful in treating the cancerous and precancerous growths.

Levulan blue light treatment for skin cancer.

I will be heading back for more photodynamic therapy on my arms and legs. Blue light therapy treatment is usually a very quick process and is almost always done as an outpatient procedure. I had levulan blue light therapy for skin cancer on my arms. Lkc303 45 54 female on treatment for less than 1 month patient.

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. Skin lesions that are not thick due to sun exposure 12 11 2019 2 00 37 pm reviewer. Photodynamic therapy pdt is a treatment that uses special drugs sometimes called photosensitizing agents along with light to kill cancer cells. Five days later a little peeling.

My arms feel smoother than they have in years. The exception to this may be photodynamic therapy on high risk areas for cancer. I am quite pleased. 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. Photodynamic therapy for skin cancer. Zimmerman at golden state dermatology in walnut creek c. As with any medically significant procedure photodynamic therapy pdt carries its own profile of advantages and risks.

The drugs only work after they have been activated or turned on by certain kinds of light. Pdt may also be called photoradiation therapy phototherapy or photochemotherapy. Contraindicated in patients with cutaneous photosensitivity at wavelengths. Really no pain not much in the way of anything negative.