February 7, 2008

LASER FOR POST-RADIATION DERMATITIS


Laser may support healing process of post radiation dermatitis as you can see in the above pictures..
For nasopharyngeal cancer,the golden standard is radiation( eitther external radiation only or maybe combined with internal radiation(brachytherapy).
Most of the patients were diagnosed at the the late stage where a combination with chemotherapy were needed.
A new modality of treating nasopharyngeal cancer using laser and photosensitizer named Photodynamic Therapy is now going into popularity among cancer centers.A new generation of photosensitizer which is more potent is now available in the market.