Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Studying samples of tumor tissue and blood in the laboratory from patients with cancer may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in genetic material (DNA and RNA) and may also identify protein expression patterns related to cancer. It may also help doctors predict how patients will respond to treatment. PURPOSE: This research study evaluates changes in DNA, RNA, and proteins with the goal of predicting response to treatment in patients with lung cancer.

RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of tissue from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that may occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is looking at epidermal growth factor receptor mutations and k-ras oncogene mutations in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

RATIONALE: Collecting samples of tumor tissue from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that may occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is looking at HER-2 mutations in tumor samples from patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer being treated with trastuzumab on clinical trial ECOG-2598.

RATIONALE: Studying samples of tissue from smokers and non-smokers in the laboratory may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This phase II study is looking at biomarkers in the nose, throat, and lung tissue of smokers and non-smokers.

RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of tissue, blood, and sputum from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to collect and store tissue, blood, and sputum samples from patients with lung cancer to be tested in the laboratory.

The objective is to investigate the correlation between smoking pattern and clinical efficacy of EGFR TKIs in male patients with locally advanced or metastasized non-small cell lung cancer of adeno histology who have failed 1st line chemotherapy. Health care resource usage, quality of life (EQ-5D) and practice of EGFR mutation test will also be evaluated. Current practice of EGFR mutation testing in Taiwan will be surveyed.

The main purpose of this study is to compare two types of treatment-standard palliative care (which usually is given towards the end of life) and integrated palliative care (which is given soon after diagnosis) to see which is better for improving quality of life of participants with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Palliative care is care that tries to lessen the symptoms of a disease. Although many people with advanced lung cancer receive palliative care or hospice toward the end of their disease, the entire course of their disease is often complicated by physical and emotional difficulties. Palliative care may be useful when it is started soon after diagnosis.

The purpose of this non-interventional study is to collect data on efficacy and toxicity of the use of Navelbine ORAL in daily routine in Germany (especially after availability of an 80mg capsule). The study focusses on concomitant antiemetic therapy and patient compliance.

This trial is referred to as the "umbrella trial". The BATTLE program consists of this umbrella trial plus four phase II protocols into which the umbrella patients are enrolled. Patients will first enroll in the BATTLE umbrella trial and undergo a tumor biomarker analysis that will be used to assign them to one of the four phase II studies. All patients enrolled in one of the phase II BATTLE protocols must be enrolled in this protocol.

This study will look at how tumors in the chest and abdomen move when you breathe. Your doctors are studying if extra 4D CT scans and instructions on how to breathe can help predict this type of movement and improve the accuracy of radiation treatment. 4D CT scans are approved by the FDA. A 4D CT scan is different from a regular CT because it moves slower and takes more pictures. It takes pictures of the way your body moves when you breathe. This gives doctors more pictures of your body so that they can match your pictures to the way you breathe. In this study, instructions on how to breathe will be visual and audio. Visual instructions will be given to you on a computer screen. You will hear audio instructions through a speaker.