# OnCo record mal-pdt-versus-surgery-nodular-bcc (trial). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/trials/mal-pdt-versus-surgery-nodular-bcc/>
  a schema:MedicalTrial ;
  onco:kind "trial" ;
  schema:identifier "mal-pdt-versus-surgery-nodular-bcc" ;
  schema:name "Photodynamic therapy against surgery for nodular basal cell carcinoma"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Rhodes trial"@en, "MAL-PDT versus excision surgery in nodular basal cell carcinoma"@en ;
  schema:description "For the thicker, lump-like basal cell carcinoma, light treatment clears about as many at three months as surgery does, but over five years three times as many come back. What it buys is a better-looking result, and that is the whole of the trade."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/trials/mal-pdt-versus-surgery-nodular-bcc/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.140.1.17>, <https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.143.9.1131>, <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17875873/>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2025.104702> ;
  onco:status "negative" ;
  onco:phase "3" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/basal-cell-carcinoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/skin-cancer/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/photodynamic-therapy-lasers/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/aminolevulinic-acid/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/topical-and-destructive-treatment-bcc/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/mal-pdt-imiquimod-fluorouracil-superficial-bcc/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/mal-pdt-versus-cryotherapy-superficial-bcc/> .