Active clinical trials for "Keratosis, Actinic"

The purpose of this study is testing the use of topical Imipramine in combination with topical photodynamic therapy's (PDT) effect on pain following treatment. PDT is a commonly used treatment in dermatology for patients who have many pre-cancers (actinic keratosis-AKs) on their skin. These are both FDA-approved treatments, but this study is evaluating their use in combination, which has not been evaluated in the past. The investigators have been doing studies using animals that suggest that imipramine might make the PDT less painful and might help it work better. In order to participate, the subject and their dermatologist have decided that they would benefit from PDT to treat their skin due to many AK precancerous lesions. Please note that neither PDT nor imipramine are experimental treatments, but treating their skin with imipramine before PDT is a new approach.

This study evaluates whether a Patient Decision Aid for the field-directed treatment of actinic keratosis has an effect on shared decision making and patient satisfaction.

This is a first-in-humans adaptive design open label trial to explore the safety and efficacy of SM-020. Multiple dosing cohorts will be enrolled. The first cohort will have a two-week treatment period of twice daily applications followed by a four-week follow-up period. Based on the results at any time from the first and subsequent cohorts, additional cohorts will explore different dosing regimens.

This blinded controlled 2-year study on 120 patients with 2 or more actinic keratoses, compare the efficacy and tolerability of pulsed dye-laser- mediated photodynamic therapy compared to conventional photodynamic therapy and fractional-laser assisted daylight photodynamic therapy compared to daylight photodynamic therapy.

This Phase III study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of KX01 Ointment in adult participants when applied to an area of skin containing more than 1, clinically typical Actinic Keratosis (AK) lesions on the face or scalp.

The aim of this study is to test the safety. tolerability and efficacy of field-directed photodynamic therapy (PDT) with 10% aminolevulinic acid gel (Ameluz®, BF-200 ALA) in combination with one of the narrow spectrum red light RhodoLED lamps in comparison to vehicle treatment for actinic keratosis (AK) on the extremities and neck/trunk.

Actinic keratosis (AK), also known as solar keratosis, is a common skin condition characterised by abnormal growth of skin cells caused by long-term sun exposure. AK is considered to be a precancerous lesion, and is therefore commonly treated to reduce the risk of malignant transformation into skin cancer. The trial is a randomised, double-blind, vehicle-controlled, dose-comparison trial in which adult subjects with AK grade 1 or 2 will be treated with AVX001 silicone-based gel in doses of 1% or 3% or with a gel vehicle for a 4-week field-directed treatment period. Subjects will be followed up for 8 weeks after the treatment period. The primary objective is to evaluate the local tolerability of daily applications of AVX001 gel in doses of 1% or 3% and compare with vehicle.

A double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled intervention trial on patients with actinic keratosis.

Background Actinic keratoses (AKs) are often treated separately, lesion by lesion. However, in the past years, AKs have been described as a field disease and not limited to single clinically apparent lesions. Treatment should therefore target an area of field change which may treat the subclinical AKs and reduce the risk of development of further AKs, second tumours, and local recurrence. Objectives The investigators sought to investigate whether field ALA-PDT of facial actinic keratosis would prevent new AKs, in comparison with a lesion area receiving the same ALA-PDT, in patients with clinical signs of field cancerization. Methods Eighty patients, previously diagnosed as having AKs of the face, were randomized distribution into two groups. 10% aminolaevulinic acid (ALA)-PDT for field treatment was on one group and for a lesion area (Vehicle control cream was applied to the non-lesion area) was on the other group. During the next 5-year period of follow up, patients were clinically evaluated for new AKs.

This is a randomized clinical trial evaluating blue light 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) photodynamic therapy with different incubation times for the treatment of actinic keratosis. Subjects who are interested in participating, currently living in the Chicago metropolitan area, and meet inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled in the study. Subjects will be randomized to either 1) zero time ALA incubation or 2) 1 hour ALA incubation. Demographic and health data will be collected prior to treatment initiation. Three visits will be conducted: screening, treatment, and follow up visit at 8 weeks. This study is a pilot study designed to determine feasibility of this procedure.