Protocols for Painless Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) of Actinic Keratoses

Actinic Keratosis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Simultaneous Incubation/Illumination Versus Short Aminolevulinate Preincubation for Painless Photodynamic Therapy of Actinic Keratoses

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02124733
• Other study ID #: 14-374
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2018

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: The Cleveland Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is being done to compare a new, continuous illumination regimen of ALA-PDT (Aminolevulinate-Photodynamic Therapy) to a conventional regimen for treatment of actinic keratoses. The hypothesis is that the continuous illumination approach will be less painful, but equally efficacious, as the old regimen.

Description:

This study is being done to compare a modified version of the standard ALA-PDT (Aminolevulinate-Photodynamic Therapy) treatment of actinic keratoses, to a modified version in which light exposure begins immediately after application of the Levulan. We hypothesize that this will yield a therapeutic efficacy equivalent to the standard ALA-PDT regimen, but will cause less pain during the light exposure. The study employs a bilateral design in which the left versus right sides of the treatment area are compared in the exact same patient. There are 3 arms of the study, each having a different time duration of light exposure in the modified regimen to determine which one is most efficacious

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 23
• Est. completion date: December 2018
• Est. primary completion date: October 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Males or females, at least 18 years of age
• Non-hyperkeratotic actinic keratoses, at least 6 in number (3 on each side of scalp, face or upper extremities)

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient is currently pregnant or are planning to conceive during the course of the study period
• patient is using topical therapy or other treatment for these actinic keratoses
• patient has a known hypersensitivity to 5-aminolevulinic acid

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Actinic Keratosis
• Keratosis
• Keratosis, Actinic

Intervention

Procedure:
• Aminolevulinic acid based photodynamic therapy
The PDT treatments will be done in two stages. ALA (Levulan® Kerastick™) will be applied to the entire treatment area, and then the longer light exposure (lasting up to 1 hr) will be performed on one-half of the treatment area (Side A). After that, a shorter (16 min 40 sec) light exposure will be done on the other half (Side B).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Cleveland Clinic	Cleveland	Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Cleveland Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	AK clearance	The primary endpoint is treatment efficacy (AK lesion clearance at 3 months). The specific aim of this study is to establish proof-of-principle for the concept that a long delivery period of blue light from the Blu-U device, using the standard fluence rate but starting only 15 min after the application of Levulan and lasting 1 hour (fluence of 360 J/cm2), can provide a clearance rate of AK lesions comparable to a standard regimen of Blu-U light (fluence of 10 J/cm2) beginning 1 hr after LevulanTM application.	at 3 months post-treatment
Secondary	Pain during illumination	The secondary endpoint is pain during illumination. The hypothesis is that efficacy at 3 months will be statistically equivalent with the two approaches, but pain will be significantly less with the continuous treatment regimen.	During treatment through post-treatment Day4