Photodynamic Therapy in Treating Patients With Lymphoma or Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

January 30, 2013 updated by: Roswell Park Cancer Institute

A Pilot Study of Short (1-2.5 h), Medium (4-6 h) and Long (18-24 h) Applications of 20% Topical ALA-PDT for Photodynamic Therapy of Cutaneous T and B Cell Lymphomas and Cutaneous Infiltrates of Early CLL

RATIONALE: Photodynamic therapy uses light and drugs that make cancer cells more sensitive to light to kill cancer cells. Photosensitizing drugs such as aminolevulinic acid are absorbed by cancer cells and, when exposed to light, become active and kill the cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy using aminolevulinic acid in treating patients who have cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, B-cell lymphoma, or early chronic lymphocytic leukemia involving the skin.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the pain grade and epidermal toxic response (ETR) of patients with T-cell or B-cell lymphoma or early chronic lymphocytic leukemia with cutaneous infiltrates treated with photodynamic therapy using aminolevulinic acid.
  • Determine the feasibility of maintaining a pain grade of 1 or less and an approximate ETR of 2 in patients receiving up to 12 sessions of this regimen.
  • Determine the maximal irradiance and corresponding exposure among multiple treatments at the same site and among different sites in the same and in different patients.
  • Determine the cumulative response achieved at the completion of treatment in these patients.
  • Determine the number of sessions required to complete treatment in these patients.
  • Correlate ETR with incremental treatment response in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients' individual lesions are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients receive a short duration of topical aminolevulinic acid (ALA) on the lesion and surrounding normal skin. The lesion is then illuminated with red light for up to 30 minutes.
  • Arm II: Patients receive a medium duration of ALA followed by light illumination as in arm I.
  • Arm III: Patients receive a long duration of ALA followed by light illumination as in arm I.

In all arms, treatment repeats every 2 weeks for up to 12 courses in the absence of unacceptable toxicity or progressive (systemic) disease.

Additional patients are accrued to a treatment arm if at least 2 of 3 patients on that arm experience 25% cumulative clinical response.

Patients are followed at 1, 3, and 6 months and then every 6 months for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 4-10 patients will be accrued for this study within 5-7 years.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

1

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New York
      • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263-0001
        • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • One of the following histologically confirmed diagnoses:

    • Cutaneous B-cell or T-cell lymphoma confined to the skin

      • No evidence of internal disease other than peripheral adenopathy
    • Early chronic lymphocytic leukemia with cutaneous B-cell infiltrates not requiring systemic therapy
  • Stable or slowly progressive disease that is not expected to substantially change during treatment

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • Not specified

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • No porphyria or known hypersensitivity to porphyrins
  • No known photosensitivity diseases

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Concurrent clinically necessary interferon alfa allowed

Chemotherapy

  • No concurrent systemic multiagent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • No concurrent local radiotherapy to study lesions
  • No concurrent whole body radiotherapy

Surgery

  • Not specified

Other

  • More than 1 month since prior topical therapy to study lesions
  • Concurrent topical therapy to non-study lesions allowed

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Pain grade and epidermal toxic response (ETR)
Feasibility of maintaining a pain grade of 1 or less and an approximate ETR of 2
Maximal irradiance and corresponding exposure
Cumulative response achieved at the completion of treatment
Number of sessions required to complete treatment
Correlation of ETR with incremental treatment response

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 1999

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2005

Study Completion

December 6, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 5, 2003

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 5, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

February 6, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

January 31, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 30, 2013

Last Verified

January 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • DS 97-32
  • RPCI-DS-9732

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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