Photodynamic Therapy With Porfimer Sodium in Treating Patients With Precancerous Lesions, Cancer, or Other Disease of the Aerodigestive Tract

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Head and Neck Cancer, Precancerous/Nonmalignant Condition

In brief

RATIONALE: Photodynamic therapy uses a drug that becomes active when it is exposed to a certain kind of light. When the drug is active, precancerous cells and cancer cells are killed. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well photodynamic therapy with porfimer sodium works in treating patients with precancerous lesions, cancer, or other disease of the aerodigestive tract.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00453336

Run by

University of Miami

People needed

45

Starts

2003-06-01

Expected to finish

2010-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Miami — Miami, Florida, United States

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