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Patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer are usually told they have options, and the two that come up most often are Mohs surgery and radiation therapy.

I get asked about photodynamic therapy more often than almost any other in-office procedure I offer, usually by patients who were handed the acronym “PDT” in a referral letter and told very little else.

Cervical examination remains a fundamental component of preventive gynecological care. The overwhelming majority of cervical cancers develop from

Caught early, melanoma is usually very treatable. An in situ lesion and one that has already reached the dermis behave almost like two different diseases when it comes to outcome.

In clinical practice, pelvic floor dysfunction presents across almost every patient group, yet it stays underreported. Patients frequently attribute bladder leakage or a sense of pelvic weakness to age or to having given birth, and treat it as inevitable.

Hair loss is more common than most people assume. Androgenetic alopecia alone affects an estimated 50 million men and 30 million women in the United States, and the search for treatments that work without drugs, injections, or surgery has pushed red light therapy into the mainstream.

Hair loss is one of the most common concerns I see in clinical practice, and it affects far more people than most patients assume. In the United States alone, androgenetic alopecia affects an estimated 50 million men and 30 million women.

Osteoarthritis affects roughly 528 million people worldwide; rheumatoid arthritis adds another 18 million. These numbers have climbed steadily over three decades of Global Burden of Disease tracking.

Selecting between phototherapy and biologic therapy is a common decision point in the management of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and vitiligo. Both options deliver real clinical results.

Most dermatology practices that invest in a phototherapy cabin end up using it for one or two diagnoses at most – typically plaque psoriasis and sometimes atopic dermatitis.