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To: Tensane 1 who wrote (1628)	4/1/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: JanyBlueEyes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5736

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. ========= 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.