Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung"

to evaluate the prognosis of non-small cell lung carcinoma patients under CIK cellular treatment with PD-1 blocking on top of the standard therapy

The investigators' experimental study found that gossypol was the natural inhibitor of apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) and clinical study observed that high expression of APE1 was relative to the platinum-resistance in non-small cell lung cancer. Thus the purpose of this study is to find out whether gossypol can improve the sensitivity of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in the non-small cell lung cancer with apurinic apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) high expression

The phase 1 study evaluats RAD001 in combination with radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. First phase of the study:RAD001 (everolimus) will be administered per os every Monday, one week before then during the radiotherapy and will be continued for 3.5 weeks after the end of the radiotherapy. Chemotherapy is given 4.5 weeks after the end of radiotherapy. Three patient cohorts are planned, receiving 10, 20 and 50 mg of RAD001 per week.Second phase of the study:RAD001 (everolimus) will be administered per os every day one week before then during the radiotherapy and will be continued for 3.5 weeks after the end of radiotherapy. Chemotherapy is given 4.5 weeks after the end of radiotherapy. Three patient cohorts are planned, receiving 2.5, 5 and 10 mg of RAD001 per day.The two phases of the study may be conducted independently and in parallel.Radiotherapy: 66 Grays over 6.5 weeks. (5 weekly fractions of 2 Grays)Chemotherapy: 2 cycles: Cisplatin 100 mg/m2 D1, Navelbine 25 mg/m2 D1, D8, every 21 days.

This study trys to evaluate the predictive role of thymidylate synthase expression for pemetrexed/cisplatin in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

This phase II trial is to compare neoadjuvant chemotherapy with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to address optimal induction strategy.

The guidelines and institutional practices recommended more frequent visits the two years following curative-intent therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).No international consensus is published concerning follow-up of resected NSCLC patients.Recent studies have outlined that positron emission tomography (PET) scanning may be accurate in early detection of recurrences by comparison to computed tomography (CT). The aim of this study is to compare follow-up by conventional methods versus PET. Patients are randomly assigned to two arms. In the first arm, thorax CT with liver and adrenal gland sections, abdominal ultrasonography and nuclear bone scintigraphy are performed every 6 months after surgery for two years. In the second arm, PET scanning is only. For brain metastasis detection, CT is performed in the two arms. Recurrences are detected during scheduled or unscheduled procedure in asymptomatic patients. PET and CT are interpreted separately by two nuclear physicians and two radiologists. The direct cost of follow-up procedure is determined in the two groups. The calculated sample is composed of 60 patients in each arm to detect significant difference. The Ethics Committee of Universitary Hospital of Limoges approves the study.

Needle biopsy samples are routinely collected to evaluate cytomorphology, immunohistochemical markers and for mutational analysis. With regular use of immunotheraputic interventions, needle biospy has become more frequent and requires bigger samples for an increasing battery of tests. There has been no clear consensus on which biopsy needle yields the best biopsy sample. It is unclear if large 19g needle offers better yield than a 22 g needle. Although previous studies comparing 21, 22 and 19g needles have suggested that larger needles yield larger biopsy sizes, conflictng studies have shown that larger biopsies lead to bloodier samples with potentially smaller fragments of tissue, offering no improvement in diagnostic, yield, adequacy or sample size. This study compares biopsy samples collected using 19g and 22g needles from patients of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) scheduled to undergo endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and transbroncial needle aspiration (TBNA).

This study investigates the feasibility of FLT-PET to improve the diagnosis of relapse in patients with irradiated lung cancer in comparison with FDG-PET/CT.

Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer can be treated successfully with chemotherapy and radiation. However, the cure rate is low. This study is carried out to find out whether giving radiotherapy at a higher dose over fewer treatment sessions with intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) can improve the treatment outcome. This study aims to recruit 43 patients from National University Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital over a period of about 2 years.

Cisplatin and pemetrexed combination or carboplatin, paclitaxel and bevacizumab are now considered as standard treatment in non-squamous cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). Both main registrative trials are considered positive because they reached their objectives, but within them, the Quality of Life (QoL) of patients was not detailed neither has represented as primary objective of the studies. It is considered that, together with enhancements that are added to the knowledge of the biology of NSCLC, QoL may influence the therapeutic choice if one of the associations show to be better tolerated by the patient and favours an amelioration of his QoL.