Vitamin D and light therapy for skin cancer
Treatments studied
Part of Cancer clinical trials.
This trial tests whether taking vitamin D before a special light therapy (photodynamic therapy) can help your body fight nonmelanoma skin cancers like basal or squamous cell cancer. You may join if you are scheduled for surgery to remove a skin tumor.
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Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older and scheduled for Mohs surgery or ED&C at Cleveland Clinic's dermatology department.
- You have at least one basal or squamous cell skin cancer tumor that is larger than 1 cm (about the size of a pea) and will be removed by Mohs surgery.
- You can be of any ethnic background.
- You must live in Ohio if you are in Groups 2 or 3, because the study drugs can only be shipped within the state.
- You cannot be pregnant or breastfeeding, and you cannot be currently treated for another cancer with medical or radiation therapy.
- You must not have a known allergy to 5-aminolevulinic acid or a history of a light-sensitivity disease like porphyria cutanea tarda.
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