Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

Lung cancer is the most common cancer with the highest morbidity and mortality in the world. Stagement is closely related to the 5 years of survival rate of patients. The postoperative 5-year survival rate is above 90% for stage ⅠA lung cancer patients, while the 5-year survival rate of stage IV lung cancer patients is less than 5%. Therefore, early screening and diagnosis for lung cancer is a key method to reduce lung cancer mortality and prolong survival for patients. At present, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is the most effective method for early detection of lung cancer. In addition to imaging examination, plasma tumor markers detection is also a common clinical detection method for tumor screening and postoperative monitoring. Liquid biopsy is a non-invasive or minimally invasive method for testing blood or other liquid samples to analyze tumor-related markers including nucleic acids and proteins. Several studies have explored the detection of hot spot gene mutations, methylation and methylation changes of DNA, protein markers and autoantibodies in peripheral blood in lung cancer patients. Liquid biopsy has generally become the most popular field for early diagnosis of lung cancer. Based above, it is necessary to combine multi-omics methods to improve the detection of early stage lung cancer. In our study, we intend to integrate molecular features obtained through liquid biopsy and clinical data of lung cancer patients, and develop and prospectively validate a machine-learning method which can robustly discriminate early-stage lung cancer patients from controls.

VeriStrat® is a pretreatment blood-based test correlated with clinical outcome after EGFR-TKI therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The investigators hypothesis is that VeriStrat could be also employed as a biomarker of benefit from treatment with standard chemotherapy regimens in first line NSCLC patients.

The objective of this pilot study is to determine whether 18F-FLT PET/CT can predict which patients will have poorer progression free survival and overall survival in advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) after first-line therapy and, therefore, need more aggressive treatment.

To study the efficacy and safety of autologous CIK cells infusion for the treatment of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the most lethal cancer, killing ~1.3 million people worldwide every year. Early diagnosis could increase its survival by 3-4 folds. Therefore the yield of screening for lung cancer is not a question anymore and the urgent unmet need is to define the group that is under a high risk for lung cancer. Our lab is focusing on revealing non-invasive biomarkers as for early detection of lung cancer. This study specifically focuses on biomarkers that are found in exhaled breath. These biomarkers are known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs).The VOCs' profile can discriminate between those who suffer from lung cancer and healthy individuals. It is well established that a cancer cell can activate their glycolysis (glucose degradation) pathway in order to survive. This links malignant processes with this basic biochemical, metabolic cycle. This study will focus on the unique processes incurred by glycolysis in the tumor cells and its effect on the surrounding environment. By better understanding and revealing the exact mechanism, it will become possible to identify the biomarkers released by malignant cells that use glycolysis as a source of energy. This study's goal is to identify and analyze those distinguishing VOCs. The hope is that these VOCs will provide a new innovative possibility of developing the so desperately needed, early-detection lung cancer screening method. This research will collect and analyze the exhaled breath of participants. The exhaled breath will be obtained before and after a glucose challenge test, in which the participant is asked to drink a solution containing water and glucose. This study will involve a total of seventy participants, fifty of which currently suffer from active lung cancer, while the remaining participants belong to a high-risk group.

The aim of our study is to investigate if CK19 mRNA-detection via OSNA can accurately detect lymph node metastases in lung cancer patients using EBUS-TBNA samples.

To investigate whether the use of airways stents (metal tubes to open and keep open narrowed airways) together with the standard treatment increases the proportion of patients who can complete a 6min walking distance (6MWD) test at 2 weeks +/- 2days in patients with breathlessness due to lung cancer, when compared to standard treatment alone.

The ability of 18F-FDG PET for characterizing lung nodule remains a challenge, especially in Taiwan where tuberculosis is still prevalent. 18F-3'-fluoro-3'-deoxy-L-thymidine (18F-FLT), a radiolabeled analog of thymidine, can be trapped within the cytosol after being monophosphorylated by thymidine kinase-1 (TK-1), a principle enzyme in the salvage pathway of DNA synthesis. It has been demonstrated in cell culture, animal models and clinical studies that the accumulation of 18F-FLT is closely associated with cellular proliferation. 18F-FLT PET may be more accurate than 18F-FDG PET in differentiating benign from malignant pulmonary lesions. In addition, the correlation between 18F-FLT uptake and cellular proliferation hints the usefulness of 18F-FLT PET for monitoring treatment response with cytostatic anticancer drugs. We thus design this prospective 3-year project To evaluate the usefulness of 18F-FLT PET and 18F-FDG PET in differentiating benign from malignant pulmonary nodules in Taiwan where tuberculosis is still prevalent. To assess the usefulness of 18F-FLT PET in early prediction of therapeutic response of platinum-based chemotherapies or EGFR inhibitors for NSCLC patients. To correlate 18F-FLT uptake with EGFR mutation status, therapeutic response and survival for NSCLC patients.

Aim of the present retrospective study is to evaluate molecular factors of primary resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in metastatic non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The investigators assess first, the incidence of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Kirsten ras sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutations, SOS and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) expression, anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) translocation and expression and, secondly, the investigators correlate molecular markers with clinical features and outcome in terms of response rate, progression free survival and overall survival.

Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a new attractive non-invasive field in medical diagnostics. These VOCs can be detected via the exhaled breath. Together with Prof Haick group at the Technion Inst (Israel), the investigators data shows that there is a relation between the VOCs patterns of NSCLC and control cell lines and equivalent states in exhaled breath. The investigators demonstrated that there is a clear discrimination between the lung cancer and the healthy clusters . The investigators also analyzed the headspace of NSCLC and SCLC cell lines and the investigators could discriminate significantly between SCLC versus NSCLC based on their VOCs patterns. This analysis allowed us to identify the specific VOCs consumed or omitted by cancerous cells. Therefore, a non-invasive and highly sensitive test would be extremely valuable for the classification and early screening of lung cancer and for targeted therapy. In this study, the investigators will monitor the VOC pattern of patients with lung cancer as well as high risk cohort and patients under risk/evaluation for lung cancer. Likewise the investigators will monitor pts under and after therapy. In addition, the investigators will compare teh breath signature to other biomarkers of lung cancer, like circulating tumor cells and others.