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Status unknownNCT04396184Updated May 20, 2020

Conventional Photodynamic Therapy vs. Painless Photodynamic Therapy for Actinic Keratosis

An interventional study of Aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy in Actinic Keratosis, sponsored by Shanghai Dermatology Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-05-20.

Sponsored by Shanghai Dermatology Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified May 2020), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is being done to compare a new, continuous illumination and short Incubation time regimen of aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy#ALA-PDT) to a conventional regimen for treatment of Actinic Keratosis. The hypothesis is that the continuous illumination approach will be less or even no painful, but equally efficacious, as the old regimen.

Read the detailed description

This study is being done to compare a new, continuous illumination and short Incubation time regimen of aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy#painless-PDT) to a conventional regimen for treatment of Actinic Keratosis. The hypothesis is that the continuous illumination approach will be less or even no painful, but equally efficacious, as the old regimen.

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Conditions studied

  • Actinic Keratosis

Keywords

  • Photodynamic Therapy
  • Conventional
  • Painless
  • Actinic Keratosis
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In context

Keratosis, Actinic

364 studies on the registry are indexed under Keratosis, Actinic; 31 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 10 is below the median of 60 across 315 interventional studies indexed under Keratosis, Actinic.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Dermatology Hospital is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Clinical diagnosed with AK (OLSEN classification grade I, II, III), aged > 18 years (Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of topical aminolevulinic acid in patients \<18 years of age, children are excluded from this study);
  2. All patients are unfit and reluctant to undergo surgery for any reasons, and volunteered to participate in the study and ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent. Patents are willing to pay for the treatment, and agreed to take a picture of the skin lesions.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Those who had ALA-PDT and any other studies that affect this study within 12 weeks ;
  2. There are other facial diseases that may affect the efficacy evaluation, such as other photodermatosis;
  3. Take phototoxic or photosensitizer within 8 weeks;
  4. Clinical and / or pathological prove that the tumor has invaded other organs or tissues;
  5. Serious immunocompromised persons;
  6. scar constitution;
  7. Patients are known to have skin photosensitivity, porphyria, or allergies to ALA, light or lidocaine;
  8. Persons are suffering from severe internal diseases, mental and mental illness, infectious diseases or pregnant or lactating women.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
10 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Painless Photodynamic Therapy(P-PDT) group

    The painless photodynamic therapy group underwent narrow-band light-emitting diode (LED) irradiation (630 nm; 288 J/cm2) after applying 5% 5-aminolevulinic acid#ALA#cream for 30min. A repeat treatment was administered once every two weeks for 3 times.

    Procedure: Aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy

  • Active comparator
    Conventional Photodynamic Therapy(C-PDT) group

    The conventional photodynamic therapy(C-PDT) group underwent narrow-band light-emitting diode (LED) irradiation (630 nm; 140 J/cm2) after applying 5% 5-aminolevulinic acid cream for 3h.A repeat treatment was administered once every two weeks for 3 times.

    Procedure: Aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy

Interventions

  • ProcedureAminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy

    Aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The clearance rate of Actinic Keratoses

    The change rate in lesion clearance of Actinic Keratoses at six weeks after treatment will be measured as the primary outcome

    Time frame: six weeks after treatment

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pain assessment

    The pain will be assessed using Vissual Analogue Scale(VAS) with a score range of 0-10.The higher the score,the greater the pain, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the most unbearable pain. Pain will be measured at different time points during and after every treatment

    Time frame: Immediately, 1st minute, 3rd minute, 5th minute, 10th minute, 30th minute, 1hour ,2hour, 4hour, 12hour, 24hour,48hour ,72hour

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — underlie results

Supporting information: Csr

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 20, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04396184
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Dermatology Hospital
Responsible party
Xiuli Wang (Director, Clinical Professor, Shanghai Dermatology Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 20, 2020
Start date
May 1, 2020
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 30, 2021 (estimated)
Last update
May 20, 2020

Study contacts

Yunfeng Zhang, MD
Contact
yunfeng0519116@aliyun.com
18217422425 ext. 18217422425
Haiyan Zhang, MD
Contact
zhanghaiyan10842@163.com
18017336573
Xiuli Wang, PHD,MD
study chair · Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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