# Surgery, Radiation Therapy, and Chemotherapy With or Without Photodynamic Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Malignant Supratentorial Gliomas

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## TL;DR

A phase 3 trial of Carmustine, Lomustine, Porfimer sodium and Procarbazine in Brain and spinal cord tumours, run by Colorado Health Foundation, with a status the registry has not verified recently.

## Summary

Surgery, Radiation Therapy, and Chemotherapy With or Without Photodynamic Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Malignant Supratentorial Gliomas is a phase 3 interventional study registered as NCT00003788 by Colorado Health Foundation, with 270 participants planned, started 1998-04. Interventions recorded: carmustine, lomustine, porfimer sodium, procarbazine hydrochloride, neoadjuvant therapy, surgical procedure, radiation therapy. Conditions recorded: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors.

Linked to the drug Porfimer sodium because the registry names it among its interventions and Brain and spinal cord tumours among its conditions. Registry record only: no result has been read by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Trial
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: pipeline; ctgov-ingest
- Registry id: NCT00003788
- Phase: 3
- Setting: Prospective Clinical Trials in the Use of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) for the Treatment of Malignant Supratentorial Brain Tumors
- Sponsor: Colorado Health Foundation
- Enrolled: 270

## Sources

- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00003788: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00003788

## Connected records

- cancers: [Brain and spinal cord tumours (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/brain-tumours/)
- drugs: [Carmustine](https://onco.cc/drugs/carmustine/), [Lomustine (CCNU)](https://onco.cc/drugs/lomustine/), [Porfimer sodium](https://onco.cc/drugs/porfimer-sodium/), [Procarbazine](https://onco.cc/drugs/procarbazine/)

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