Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

Folic acid (FA; folate) in the dose of 350-1,000 μg daily should be supplemented, daily, starting 7 days before the first dose of pemetrexed based chemotherapy and should be continued while the patient is on therapy and for 21 days after cessation of therapy. Vitamin B12 injections (1,000 μg i.m.) should also be started 1 week before the first dose of chemotherapy. However, the evidence for delaying chemotherapy by seven days for the purpose of giving vitamin B12 and FA supplementation is not robust. Observational and prospective single arm studies have not shown any increased toxicity if pemetrexed was started earlier than the recommended duration of supplementation. In a resource constrained setting, this will lead to one additional visit and 1-week chemotherapy delay which may be inconvenient for patients. Hence an open label, randomized control trial is being undertaken to evaluate if there are any differences in pemetrexed related hematological toxicity amongst patients who receive delayed initiation of chemotherapy (following 5 - 7 days of vitamin B12 and FA supplementation; Delayed Arm) as compared to those in whom vitamin B12 and FA supplementation is starting simultaneously (within 24 hours) of initiation of chemotherapy (Immediate Arm).

The MILD project is a randomized lung cancer screening trial whose primary aim is to evaluate the impact on mortality of early lung cancer detection through LDCT (low-dose computed tomography) in 2 groups: a control group undergoing a program of primary prevention with pulmonary function test evaluation and a group undergoing a periodic spiral CT associated with primary prevention and pulmonary function test evaluation. This last one is also randomized in two arms: yearly low-dose CT vs CT every 2 years. MILD trial comprehensive design combines for the first time primary prevention (smoking cessation) with early detection, and molecular risk profile through assessing the value of blood and tissue biomarkers.

Feasibility and Safety study of autologous dendritic cell immunotherapy (AGS-003-LNG) in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer.

The project aims to study whether the application of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) of 4 cm water vapor is a safe method in pulmonary radiofrequency intervention (PRF) lung cancer under conscious sedation compared with placebo. And, assess whether CPAP prevents atelectasis formation and consequently reduces the potential complications of PRF and improves procedural success

This is an open-label, multi-center, single arm phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of novel BRAF (B-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1) inhibitor encorafenib (LGX818) when used as single agent in patients with advanced or metastatic (stage IIIB or IV) BRAF V600 mutant NSCLC. Patients must have progressed on or after at least one previous systemic, anti-cancer therapy for locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC.

The purpose of the study is to conduct research of a new PET radiopharmaceutical in cancer patients. The uptake of the novel radiopharmaceutical 18F-FPPRGD2 will be assessed in study participants with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), gynecological cancers, and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who are receiving antiangiogenesis treatment.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether ischemic preconditioning reduces lung injury in patients undergoing pulmonary resection.

This trial will test the feasibility of adjuvant chemotherapy after stereotactic body radiation therapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

This pilot clinical trial studies the side effects of cryotherapy (cryoablation [CA]) in treating patients with lung cancer. Cryotherapy kills cancer cells by freezing them.

This study aims to investigate a diagnostic yield and performance characteristics according to the order of endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) and endoscopic ultrasound-with bronchoscope-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EUS-B-FNA) in the mediastinal staging of potentially operable lung cancer. EUS-FNA is a better tolerated procedure than EBUS-TBNA. Therefore, EUS-B-FNA can be the main procedure in a combined approach with EBUS-TBNA and EUS-B-FNA. In group A, the investigators perform EBUS-TBNA first and EUS-B-FNA is performed when necessary. In group B, EUS-B-FNA is first applied and EBUS-TBNA is performed when necessary. The hypothesis is that the diagnostic yield of the EUS centered procedure is as good as that of the EBUS centered procedure and the EUS centered procedure is more tolerable than the EBUS centered procedure. We evaluate diagnostic yields and performance characteristics of each group.