ALA-induced PpIX Fluorescence During Brain Tumor Resection

Phase 1Active Not RecruitingNCT02191488

David W. Roberts540 enrolled

Overview

Removing a tumor from a patients brain is hard to do because, very often, brain tumors do not have boundaries that are easy for the patients surgeon to find. In many cases, the surgeon can't tell exactly where the tumor begins or ends. The surgeon usually can remove most of the patient's tumor by looking at the MRI images that were taken of the patient's brain before surgery. However, the surgeon does not have any good way to tell if the entire tumor has been removed or not. Removing the entire tumor is very important because leaving tumor behind may allow it to grow back which could decrease the chances of survival.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

540

Conditions

Brain Tumors

Interventions

5-aminolevulinic acidDRUG

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 21 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Preoperative diagnosis of either presumed first-time low or high grade glioma, or recurrent glioma, or metastasis, or meningioma * Tumor judged to be suitable for open cranial resection based on preoperative imaging studies. * Patient or LAR able to provide written informed consent. * No serious associated psychiatric illnesses. * Age \> 21 years old. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women or women who are breast feeding * History of cutaneous photosensitivity, porphyria, hypersensitivity to porphyrins, photodermatosis, exfoliative dermatitis. * History of liver disease within the last 12 months. * Elevated liver function levels greater than 2.5 times the normal limit from laboratory tests conducted within 30 days prior to surgery. * Inability to comply with the photosensitivity precautions associated with the study. * Plasma creatinine in excess of 180umol/L within 30 days prior to surgery

Locations (1)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Comparison of intraoperative measurements of PpIX concentration to coregistered histopathology

To estimate the probability of tumor distribution for a given PpIX concentration by comparing intraoperative measurements with coregistered histopathology obtained from biopsy sampling during the procedure

Time frame: Up to five years from the first surgery date

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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