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  2. Photodynamic therapy - Wikipedia

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    Photodynamic therapy is also used to relieve symptoms of some cancers, including esophageal cancer when it blocks the throat and non-small cell lung cancer when it blocks the airways. [ 26 ] When cells that have absorbed photosensitizers are exposed to a specific wavelength of light, the photosensitizer produces a form of oxygen, called an ...

  3. Light-emitting diode therapy - Wikipedia

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    While blue light therapy has similar mechanisms for skin enhancement as red light therapy, its usage for photodynamic therapies in treating cancer are slightly different. Blue light therapy stimulates immune system defences, destroys blood vessels that help cancer cells grow, and causes cell death by reacting with oxygen. [ 16 ]

  4. Intense pulsed light - Wikipedia

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    Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a technology used by cosmetic and medical practitioners to perform various skin treatments for aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, including hair removal, photorejuvenation (e.g. the treatment of skin pigmentation, sun damage, and thread veins) as well as to alleviate dermatologic diseases such as acne.

  5. Light therapy - Wikipedia

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    Light therapy is preferred over antidepressants in the treatment of SAD because it is a relatively safe and easy therapy. [20] Two methods of light therapy, bright light and dawn simulation, have similar success rates in the treatment of SAD. [21] It is possible that response to light therapy for SAD could be season dependent. [22]

  6. Lasers in cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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    Lasers are used to treat cancer in several different ways. Their high-intensity light can be used to shrink or destroy tumors or precancerous growths. Lasers are most commonly used to treat superficial cancers (cancers on the surface of the body or the lining of internal organs) such as basal-cell skin cancer and the very early stages of some cancers, such as cervical, penile, vaginal, vulvar ...

  7. Medical uses of bicalutamide - Wikipedia

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    Bicalutamide is used primarily in the treatment of early and advanced prostate cancer. [1] It is approved at a dosage of 50 mg/day as a combination therapy with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH analogue) or orchiectomy (that is, surgical or medical castration) in the treatment of stage D2 metastatic prostate cancer (mPC), [2] [3] and as a monotherapy at a dosage of 150 mg/day ...

  8. Best hair growth products for men in 2024, according to ... - AOL

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    Type of hair loss products: Hair growth products for men are available in many different forms, such as serums, hair-thickening shampoos and conditioners, oils, foams, prescription medications ...

  9. Low-level laser therapy - Wikipedia

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    Faroese physician Niels Finsen is believed to be the father of modern light therapy. [33] He used red light to treat smallpox lesions. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903. [34] Scientific evidence for some of his treatments is lacking, and later eradication of smallpox and development of antibiotics for tuberculosis ...