Light-Emitting Diode Therapy in Preventing Mucositis in Children Receiving Chemotherapy With or Without Radiation Therapy Before Bone Marrow Transplantation

Status unconfirmed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders, Kidney Cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Neuroblastoma, Oral Complications, Ovarian Cancer, Pain, Sarcoma

In brief

RATIONALE: Light-emitting diode (LED) therapy may be able to prevent mucositis of the mouth. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to determine the effectiveness of LED therapy in preventing mucositis of the mouth in children who are receiving chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy before donor bone marrow transplantation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00036712

Run by

Medical College of Wisconsin

People needed

80

Starts

2002-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-09-20

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (enrolling)

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