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Article: Photodynamic therapy in treating patients with skin cancer.(Clinical Trial Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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This study is currently recruiting patients.
Sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Photodynamic therapy uses light and drugs that make cancer cells more sensitive to light to kill tumor cells. Photodynamic therapy using aminolevulinic acid cream may be effective in treating patients with skin cancer. This is a randomized Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy in treating patients with skin cancer.
ConditionTreatment or Intervention Phase
Basal cell carcinoma of the skin Drug: aminolevulinic acid Phase II
Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin Procedure: conventional
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