Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Vertebral Metastases: A Phase I Clinical Trial.

Vertebroplasty (VP) and balloon kyphoplasty (KP) are minimally invasive stabilization procedures for pathologic vertebral compression fractures (VCF). Concurrent administration of photodynamic therapy (PDT) as a tumor-ablative modality has yet to be studied in humans as a potential complement to improved mechanical stability that is afforded by vertebral cement augmentation (VCA). This first-in-human trial used a single 6 mg/m Thirty patients comprising a variety of primary tumors were treated with PDT and either KP or VP. Vertebral PDT was technically feasible and delivered in all study patients. No dose groups showed significant increases in pain as defined by the generic SF-36 as well as disease-specific EORTC-QLQ-BM22 and EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL questionnaires. The 50 and 100 J/cm groups showed the most significant pain reduction ( Using the parameters described, vertebral PDT as an adjunct to VCA is safe from a pharmaceutical and neurologic perspective. The results of this trial motivate scale-up study evaluating potential PDT efficacy in vertebral metastatic treatment.

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