Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: A stop-smoking plan that includes health education counseling and bupropion may help African-American smokers stop smoking. It is not yet known whether health education counseling is more effective with or without bupropion in helping African Americans stop smoking. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying health education counseling and bupropion to see how well they work compared with a placebo and health education counseling in helping African Americans smokers stop smoking.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, immune response and clinical response of different doses of HLA-A*2402 restricted epitope peptides URLC10, TTK, VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 emulsified with Montanide ISA 51.

The Primary Objective is to evaluate the progression-free survival (PFS). The secondary objectives are: To compare the disease control rates of different doses of Docetaxel+Cisplatin as first-line treatment according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria; To evaluate the overall response rate (ORR); To evaluate the time to disease progression (TTP); To evaluate the overall survival (OS); To evaluate the toxicity.

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the safety of volociximab in combination with a standard treatment of carboplatin and paclitaxel in subjects previously untreated with chemotherapy for advanced stage (IIIB/IV) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation given together with carboplatin works in treating patients with stage IIIB, stage IV, or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer.

This study will compare the anti-tumor efficacy of apricoxib and erlotinib with placebo and erlotinib as measured by time to disease progression to test the hypothesis that down regulation of COX-2 and EGFR pathways in patients with up-regulated COX-2 expression in tumor will have a clinical benefit compared with erlotinib alone.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether S-1 is effective as 2nd line therapy in slowing tumor activity in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The study is also looking at the safety of S-1.

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about whether the combination of drugs carboplatin, Abraxane and Avastin helps treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). One of the standard treatments for advanced NSCLC is the combination of the drugs carboplatin, paclitaxel and Avastin. Paclitaxel can be associated with severe side effects that may make the treatment difficult to tolerate. Some of these side effects are caused by the solution used to dissolve paclitaxel before it can be administered. Abraxane is a different form of paclitaxel that does not need to be dissolved by this solution. Abraxane is approved for the treatment of breast cancer but is not approved to treat NSCLC. We will also be trying to learn more about how the drug Avastin may work to treat cancer.

The majority of patients with small cell lung cancer have incurable extensive stage disease. The usual initial treatment for this condition is chemotherapy which produces responses in about 50-80% of patients. Despite this, the cancer usually returns. Once common body region where it re-grows is in the chest, which can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough, difficulty swallowing, pain and bleeding. These symptoms can worsen a patient's quality of life and in some situation be life-threatening. In this study , we propose to give patients who have extensive stage small cell lung cancer which responds to chemotherapy radiotherapy treatments to the chest. By giving this type of radiation before the cancer has a chance to re-grow, we hope to control the disease within the chest and prevent future symptoms that it may cause if the cancer were to re-grow in the chest. Patients treated on the protocol will be checked regularly for disease control, quality of life and radiation side effects, if any.

This phase II trial is studying how well saracatinib works in treating patients with recurrent, stage IIIB or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer previously treated with combination chemotherapy that included cisplatin or carboplatin. Saracatinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.