Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

This single arm study will assess the efficacy and safety of erlotinib + gemcitabine in chemotherapy-naive participants with unresectable, advanced and/or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Participants will receive erlotinib 150 mg orally (po) daily, in combination with gemcitabine 1000 mg/m^2 intravenously (iv) weekly for 3 weeks of each 4 week cycle. The anticipated time on study treatment is until disease progression, and the target sample size is <100 individuals.

The purpose of this study is to define the schedule and dose of oral vinorelbine (Navelbine) to be used with erlotinib in non-small cell lung cancer.

This randomized phase III trial studies sunitinib malate to see how well it works when given as maintenance therapy (meaning it is approved for treatment after chemotherapy) in patients with stage IIIB-IV non-small cell lung cancer who have responded to prior treatment with combination chemotherapy. Sunitinib malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking the growth of new blood vessels necessary for tumor growth. It is not yet known whether sunitinib malate is effective in helping tumors continue to shrink or stop growing.

This trial will determine the maximum tolerated dose the recommended phase II dose and the efficacy of this combination in locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC patients

This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind phase 2 study designed to compare treatment with ARQ 197 plus erlotinib to erlotinib plus placebo in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. The study will enroll patients who have had one prior chemotherapy regimen (other than erlotinib) for NSCLC.

Study Rationale: There is increasing evidence that erlotinib improves overall survival in selected patients with stage IIIB-IV NSCLC. Furthermore, pre-clinical and phase II studies have shown a potential for synergism between erlotinib and docetaxel. This study will further evaluate the effects of combination treatment on overall survival in selected NSCLC patient population. Based on recent published data, the treatment cycle in this study will be 22 days with two infusions (Day 1 and Day 8 of each cycle). This is different from the standard therapy care of 28-day cycle (three infusions on Days 1, 8 and 15). The shorter 22-day cycle was shown to be just as effective as the 28-day cycle and is expected to increase subject compliance and decrease chemotherapy-induced toxicity. Study Objectives: The primary objective is to demonstrate superiority in progression-free-survival, when erlotinib is added to docetaxel. The secondary objectives are to determine: Overall survival (defined as the time period from the start of first-line therapy to death) Time to treatment failure or disease progression (defined as the time period from the start of first-line therapy to investigator assessed disease progression) Tumor response rate and duration Safety profile Quality of Life improvement microRNA profile (assessed from human lung biopsy and/or cytology samples) at screening for prognostic purposes

The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended dose of siltuximab monotherapy, in participants with solid malignant (cancerous) tumors (a mass in a specific area) and to estimate the clinical benefit of siltuximab monotherapy in participants with ovarian cancer and with Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutant tumors.

Because of the demonstrated single agent activity and excellent tolerability in patients with refractory non-small cell lung cancer, ZD1839 may be of benefit in the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who have poor performance status. In this phase II trial, we will investigate the single agent activity of first-line ZD1839 in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer with poor performance status

This study will evaluate combination chemotherapy for patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer combined with the potentially useful growth inhibiting effects of Gleevec.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of the three-drug combination paclitaxel, carboplatin, and gemcitabine to the two-drug combination gemcitabine and vinorelbine in patients with advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer