2021年5月6日 · Blue light therapy can help clear up acne and treat sun damage and non-melanoma skin cancers. Dermatologist Paul X. Benedetto, MD, explains how it works and who can benefit from feeling blue. Blue light treatment is most often used as part of a treatment called photodynamic therapy.

2017年8月4日 · Blue light therapy is most commonly used to treat sun damage and premalignant or malignant skin cancer growths. It can actually be used to prevent skin cancer and remove both...

2024年8月18日 · 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. You may feel stinging or burning while this is...

2023年8月16日 · Photodynamic therapy (PDT) combines light energy with drugs called photosensitizers to treat a variety of skin conditions. Dermatologists most frequently use photodynamic therapy to treat actinic keratosis (AK), a precancerous skin condition that presents as rough, scaly patches.

2024年4月11日 · Dermatologists advise their patients to avoid harmful ultraviolet light, which can cause skin damage, photoaging and skin cancer. But they also may prescribe light therapy to treat certain skin conditions.

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.

2019年7月24日 · Blue light therapy treats cancer and precancers. Blue light therapy is a form of phototherapy used to treat a variety of skin conditions such as sun-damaged skin, acne vulgaris, and actinic keratosis (precancerous lesions).

2023年12月27日 · Doctors use different types of PDT for different cancers. For example: Blue light therapy uses the photosensitizer aminolevulinic acid (Levulan Kerastick ®). A doctor applies this drug to the skin and activates it with a special blue light. This may be used for conditions like actinic keratosis.

2020年1月14日 · A relatively easy procedure, blue light therapy has successfully treated multiple conditions, including cancer, actinic keratosis (a type of superficial skin cancer), and acne. More commonly known as photodynamic therapy (PDT), blue light therapy works often as well as surgery or radiation therapy.

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). PDT is also known as "ALA/PDT treatment" or "Super Blue Light."