Photobiomodulation (PBM)

Hi

There are a few patients here who are using it.

These are the trusts offering it

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (Late Effects)
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (On-Treatment for OM)
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Paediatrics)
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (On-Treatment for OM)
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (On-Treatment for OM)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (On-Treatment for OM)
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Ipswich) 
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Colchester) 
Katharine House Hospice
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

And these are the trusts that are evaluating it and may soon offer

Just read the article Baronia, thanks for posting the link it makes interesting reading and would be a great advance in helping with the side effects we all suffer. All the best.

                                                                                 Chris 

Asked about it at Leeds, but they said only as part of a trial and that my FiL couldn't have it... Not sure why they didn't offer it from the start.

Thanks Baronia

Sounds hopeful ,anything to help with the horrid mucus , lets hope other trusts can offer this to their patients x

Debbie

Debbielouise said:

lets hope other trusts can offer this to their patients x

The units are supplied by Thor and they actually have some out on loan rather than trusts having to buy them. 

Thats sounds a good idea Dani I will ask my Oncologist about it to see if its a  possibility for Weston Park Patients x

Debbielouise said:

anything to help with the horrid mucus

What it helps some people with is the condition called mucositis which is the inflammation and ulceration that radiotherapy causes. Saliva is made up of two portions; a watery part and a slippery mucous part. RT damages salivary glands and we lose the watery part of the saliva which then becomes thick and immovable till we recover.