Surgery, Radiation Therapy, and Chemotherapy With or Without Photodynamic Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Malignant Supratentorial Gliomas

Status unconfirmed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors

In brief

RATIONALE: Photodynamic therapy uses light and drugs that make cancer cells more sensitive to light to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known if the addition of photodynamic therapy to combined therapy with surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy is more effective than combined therapy alone for supratentorial gliomas. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy with or without photodynamic therapy in treating patients who have newly diagnosed or recurrent malignant supratentorial gliomas.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00003788

Run by

Colorado Health Foundation

People needed

270

Starts

1998-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-11-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Rocky Mountain Neurological Associates — Englewood, Colorado, United States
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute — Buffalo, New York, United States
• Western Pennsylvania Hospital — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• St. Michael's Hospital-Annex — Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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