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Clinical trialNCT00002964CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Porfimer Sodium in Diagnosing Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

SponsorRoswell Park Cancer InstituteHead and Neck Cancer
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Summary

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RATIONALE: Drugs that make cancer cells more visible to light may help in the diagnosis of head and neck cancer. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the usefulness of porfimer sodium in diagnosing patients with head and neck cancer.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    Buffalo, New York, United States

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Drugs studied

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Dihematoporphyrin ether →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
28 Feb 1995
Primary completion
30 Apr 2004
Completion
—
Last update posted
5 Feb 2013
Registered enrollment
—
Registry id
NCT00002964
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.