The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if light therapy can prevent mouth sores in children with cancer. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is it reasonable and acceptable to provide light therapy for children with cancer? Does light therapy prevent mouth sores related to medical treatment? Researchers will compare children who do not receive light therapy to children who do receive light therapy during the clinical trial to see if light therapy helps to prevent mucositis. Participants will: * Complete a survey. * Have picture taken of their mouth to look for mouth sores. * Receive light therapy every day while admitted to the hospital on the cancer unit or while admitted to an alternate unit, and continue to receive light therapy in the home setting until they reach 8 days after the start of their chemotherapy cycle.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Light therapy will be administered using the cluster probe on the external cheeks bilaterally and intraorally using the lollipop probe for patients ≥7 years of age. Patients \<7 years of age will not receive intraoral treatment with the lollipop. Instead, they will be asked to open their mouth while the covered cluster probe is held externally to treat their intraoral membranes. Each treatment (both external cheeks and intraoral buccal region) will be administered over 1 min with a Modulation Frequency 2.5Hz, Skin Conduction nS 001, and Beam Power mW 000, for a total treatment time of 3 minutes. Patients will continue to receive light therapy in the home setting through day +8 of their chemotherapy cycle using the Luminance Device.
Light therapy will be administered using the cluster probe on the external cheeks bilaterally and intraorally using the lollipop probe for patients ≥7 years of age. Patients \<7 years of age will not receive intraoral treatment with the lollipop. Instead, they will be asked to open their mouth while the covered cluster probe is held externally to treat their intraoral membranes. Each treatment (both external cheeks and intraoral buccal region) will be administered over 1 min with a Modulation Frequency 2.5Hz, Skin Conduction nS 001, and Beam Power mW 000, for a total treatment time of 3 minutes. Patients will continue to receive light therapy in the home setting through day +8 of their chemotherapy cycle using the Luminance Device.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Time frame: From date of enrollment until date of last PBM treatment, assessed up to 2 years.
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Time frame: From date of enrollment until date of last PBM treatment, assessed up to 2 years.
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Time frame: From date of enrollment until date of last PBM treatment, assessed up to 2 years.
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Time frame: From date of enrollment until date of last PBM treatment, assessed up to 2 years.
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