Topical photodynamic therapy: the preferred choice for cutaneous field-cancerization?

Abstract

Linked Article: Holzer et al. Br J Dermatol 2017; 176:1155–1161.

Day light photodynamic therapy with BF-200 ALA: A case series

“…Currently, there are different field directed therapies to treat AKs. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) belongs to these treatment options (Farrar, 2017). In the last years, the use of daylight PDT (DL-PDT) has become more widespread as an alternative to conventional PDT (cPDT) with red light around 635 nm.…”

Ablative fractional laser‐fortified daylight photodynamic therapy may be the patient's preferred choice for the treatment of field cancerization

“…When we introduced ALA‐PDT nearly three decades ago on a case‐to‐case base into the clinic for the treatment of field cancerization and reported the first results, we set a question mark at the end of the title of the publication as we were uncertain whether the treatment would find its way into the therapeutic routine armamentarium for nonmelanoma skin cancers . In due course the question mark was erased and PDT became a standard in the treatment of field cancerization …”