Patients with plaque or guttate psoriasis treated with at-home phototherapy experienced similar benefits to those treated in-office, according to topline study data.
The pragmatic, randomized, active comparator Light Treatment Effectiveness (LITE) study evaluated the two treatments in 783 patients across 42 treatment centers.
Patients with plaque or guttate psoriasis were treated with home or office-based narrowband ultraviolet phototherapy for 12 weeks.
“The data were definitive enough that the research team feels like it indicates home phototherapy can be considered a first-line