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Clinical trialNCT00978081CompletedPhase 1Interventional

Photodynamic Therapy in Treating Patients With Premalignant or Early Stage Head and Neck Tumors

SponsorAbramson Cancer Center at Penn MedicineEnrollment35Head and Neck CancerPrecancerous Condition
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Summary

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RATIONALE: Photodynamic therapy uses a drug that becomes active when it is exposed to a certain kind of light. When the drug is active, tumor cells are killed. PURPOSE: This randomized phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of photodynamic therapy in treating patients with premalignant or early stage head and neck tumors.
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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
  • Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

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Aminolevulinic acid →
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Registration & key dates

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

Start
31 Jan 2009
Primary completion
30 Nov 2016
Completion
30 Nov 2016
Last update posted
23 Apr 2019
Registered enrollment
35
Registry id
NCT00978081
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