Prophylactic Photodynamic Therapy to Organ Transplant Patients

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Organ Transplants

Treatments: Procedure: Photodynamic Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00365521

KF-01-314759

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate a possible prophylactic efficacy of photodynamic therapy on the incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer, actinic keratoses, warts and keratoses in recently organ transplanted recipients.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Organ transplant recipients.
• Age 40 years or older.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients younger than 40 years and older than 70 years.
• Clinical signs of skin cancer, actinic keratoses or warts at the time of inclusion.
• Previous photodynamic therapy to the skin areas investigated.
• Pregnancy or breast feeding patients.
• Patients with porphyria.
• Patients with a tendency to produce hypertrophic scars or keloids.
• Patients with known allergy to Metvix.
• Patients who are not considered able to follow the treatment protocol (e.g. severely alcoholic patients, dementia patients, mentally ill patients etc.).