Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Phase II Clinical Trial on the Efficacy of Photodynamic Therapy With Porfimer Sodium (Photofrin®) for Malignant and Pre-Malignant Lesions and Condemned Mucosa Syndrome in the Upper Aerodigestiv
Brief Summary:
RATIONALE: Photodynamic therapy uses a drug that becomes active when it is exposed to a certain kind of light. When the drug is active, precancerous cells and cancer cells are killed.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well photodynamic therapy with porfimer sodium works in treating patients with precancerous lesions, cancer, or other disease of the aerodigestive tract.