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Daylight photodynamic therapy: patient willingness to undertake home treatment
Author(s) -
McLellan L.J.,
O'Mahoney P.,
Logan S.,
Yule S.,
Goodman C.,
Lesar A.,
Fullerton L.,
Ibbotson S.,
Eadie E.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/bjd.17920
Subject(s) - daylight , medicine , photodynamic therapy , dermatology , intensive care medicine , optics , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry
In the UK, almost one in four individuals over 60 are affected by actinic keratoses (AK), and this is a cause of significant morbidity in an ageing population, with risk of progression to squamous cell carcinoma. Daylight photodynamic therapy (dPDT) is an effective and simple treatment for field change AK, with similar efficacy to conventional PDT. Commonly, skin surface preparation is performed in a Dermatology clinic prior to dPDT. However, a recent German study by Karrer and colleagues investigated dPDT as a patient-applied home-delivered treatment for face and scalp AK and reported that patients who undertook this self-administered treatment had high levels of efficacy, tolerance and patient satisfaction. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.