For every Dermatologist who uses phototherapy.....
......don't we have the potential for mulitiple machines in a hospital? Possibility of a machine in many different specialists office?
Yes, I agree. A machine in every Dermatologist's office who uses phototherapy as treatment for:
From cam.org
Some diseases that would benefit from UVB phototherapy:
Psoriasis vulgaris, eczema, folliculitis, furunculosis, pityriasis rosea, pityriasis licheno‹des chronica, parapsoriasis en plaques, mycosis fungoides, idiopathic pruritus, pruritus of renal failure, acne.
Also, as mentioned in the news release: cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, vitiligo, and others.
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From cdc.gov
Dermatological Conditions
(All figures are for U.S.)
There are over 25 million office visits to Dermatologists annually (1995) Source: Advance Data 286
Contact dermatitis and other eczema was diagnosed at over 6.6 million office visits to physicians and at 543,000 hospital outpatient visits (1995) Source: Vital and Health Statistics Series 13, No. 129
Nearly 9.2 million cases of dermatitis were reported in 1994
Source: Vital and Health Statistics Series 10, No. 193
From psoriasis.org :
Americans Affected: Psoriasis affects 6.4 million Americans.
New Cases: Between 150,000 and 260,000 new cases of psoriasis occur each year.
Psoriasis Patients: Over 1,500,000 people per year are seen by U.S. physicians for psoriasis. |
