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Using Red Light Therapy to Ease Skin Side Effects and Mouth Side Effects, in Children and Young People Aged 0 to 16 Years Old, Receiving Radiotherapy

NCT07183267 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 248

Last updated 2026-03-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to see if the daily use of red light therapy called photobiomodulation can help sore skin and sore mouths in children having radiotherapy.

All children aged 0-16 years old who are receiving either proton or photon radiotherapy treatment, except to the brain only, will be asked if they would like to join the study.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does the use of red light therapy help the skin side effects in children and young people undergoing proton or photon therapy?
2. Does the use of red light therapy help the mouth side effects in children and young people undergoing proton or photon therapy in the head and neck area?

Researchers will compare the patients enrolled on to the study with a like for like historic patient to see if red light therapy improves the sore skin and sore mouths caused by proton or photon therapy.

Participants will have a daily treatment with red light therapy alongside their daily proton or photon treatment fraction.

Conditions

  • Radio Dermatitis
  • Mucositis Oral
  • Oesophagitis

Interventions

DEVICE

Photobiomodulation

Participants will receive a daily treatment of photobiomodulation via a LED photobiomodulation device alongside their proton or photon treatment fraction. The photobiomodulation will be administered to the skin in the site of the patients proton or photon therapy treatment area.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ed Smith · The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-01
Primary Completion
2028-06-01
Completion
2028-10-01

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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