Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

This is a randomized, open-label, phaseⅡ study evaluating efficacy and safety of DC (dendritic cells) vaccine concurrent with chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone in patients with stage IV NSCLC (non small cell lung cancer) with wild-type EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor).

This study is focus on percutaneous cryoablation,which was for the treatment of medically inoperable Peripheral lung cancer.The patients who were agreed to attend the study will accept the operation. After the operations,they will follow up according to the plan.

This is a Phase I study of the ALK/FAK/Pyk2 inhibitor CT-707 in patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer. The purpose of the study is to determine the MTD/RP2D of CT-707 and evaluate whether CT-707 is safe and has beneficial effects in ALK-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Low-frequency Rotating Magnetic Therapy System is effective and safe in the treatment of advanced lung cancer.

This study mainly evaluate the clinical effect of Apatinib in the treatment of patients with pulmonary metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma.Half of participants will receive Apatinib and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) therapy in combination,while the other half will receive TACE therapy alone.

Most patients with extensive stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) who undergo chemotherapy, and prophylactic cranial irradiation, have persistent intrathoracic disease. A Dutch study recently proved that thoracic radiotherapy(TRT), using 30 Gy in 10 fractions of 3 Gy, could improve 2-year overall survival(OS) of this patient group compared with non-TRT group. But intrathoracic progression was still high, either with or without progression elsewhere, occurring in 43.7% in the TRT group. The ideal TRT regimen for ES-SCLC is undefined. Maybe higher dose can provide better local control(LC) and overall survival. In this study, the investigators propose to give an increased dose of TRT to determine whether higher dose will improve 2-year OS, LC and progression-free survival.

Overall survival rates for patients with metastatic NSCLC are poor utilizing conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy approaches. However, a subset of patients harbor genomic driver mutations, which when targeted with specific therapies, experience improved outcomes. Unfortunately, identification of these mutations, although recommended in national guidelines, has been limited for a variety of factors including small biopsy samples. The broad application of a sensitive genomic profiling test, which simultaneously examines for multiple genomic alterations on limited biopsy material, could increase the identification of patients with actionable mutations and thereby improve survival in NSCLC. The FoundationOne test meets these requirements. A recent study using the FoundationOne assay identified a significant number of actionable mutations among NSCLC patients who were previously thought to be negative for mutations when tested using other approaches. This is a non-randomized observational comparative study with various cohorts based on physician diagnostic patterns of care and biologic genomic profile status. Survival and cost information will be compared based on different use of genomic profiling.

The use of computed tomography (CT) screening has allowed for early detection of lung cancers as small as 5mm in diameter. Early stage cancers are highly curable with a reported survival of greater than 90% over 5 years after surgical resection. Before a patient can have surgery, a biopsy must be performed. One common method is a transthoracic needle biopsy (TTNB). In this procedure, a CT-image is used to locate the area for biopsy. Once identified, the radiologist applies a local anesthetic and inserts an aspiration needle through the ribs, and into the lung tissue. The sampled lung tissue is then sent to pathology. Although this procedure has a diagnostic yield ranging between 70% and 85%, it is associated with serious complications such as pneumothorax, hemoptysis, infection, hemothorax, air embolism and there is about a 20% (range 9%-54%) incidence of pneumothorax, or air leak from the lung, requiring chest tube drainage. Additionally, about 5-15% of cases experience hemoptysis, or coughing blood, although significant life-threatening hemoptysis is only present in less than 1% of patients. When these complications occur, hospitalization as inpatients is required, with an average length of stay of 1-3 days. A new form of technology to localize and biopsy peripheral lung lesions is believed to significantly reduce the amount of complications that can occur during a biopsy. This technology is known as Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy (ENB). ENB uses electromagnetic tracking and CT-generated virtual bronchoscopy to create a three-dimensional "GPS map" of the lung, guiding the surgeon directly to the tumor. The surgeon is then able to perform bronchoscopy and biopsy the tumor from inside the bronchus. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 trials reports a pneumothorax rate of 3.1%, with only 1.6% of patients requiring chest tube drainage. Initial studies demonstrate a slightly lower diagnostic yield for ENB as compared to TTNB; however, a systematic exploration of study heterogeneity reveal that lung nodules included in TTNB studies are larger than those included in the meta-analysis of ENB yield. The review further identified six variables associated with increased diagnostic yields for ENB, including "combined use of an ultrasonic radial probe and catheter suctioning as a sampling technique". The superDimension® InReach™ System was granted Health Canada approval on July 23, 2009. There have been no studies directly comparing ENB to TTNB, either retrospectively or prospectively. Initial systematic reviews demonstrate that ENB may have a slightly lower diagnostic yield relative to TTNB. Selection bias and low study quality may have resulted in an underestimation of the true diagnostic yield associated with ENB. The literature also confirms that ENB has a significantly better safety profile as compared to TTNB. As such, a prospective comparison between the two techniques is mandated. This Phase II pilot feasibility trial will utilize randomized methodology to gather the preliminary data that is required for the successful completion of a Phase III randomized controlled trial to compare lung biopsy with ENB verses TTNB. This study will also be the first time ENB lung biopsy is documented in Canada.

The purpose of this Phase I/II study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of dendritic cells(DC) vaccine combined with cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells in patients with Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer with bone metastases. Experimental DC was transfected Ad5 vector coding mRNAs including suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) 1, MUC1 and Survivin,are used for DC-based immunotherapy. Based on the results of our previously preclinical study with DC vaccine combined with CIK cells, the investigators plan to perform the clinical trial.

The investigators propose to conduct a retrospective study of single agent ceritinib in patients with previously untreated anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearranged adenocarcinoma of the lung with the sole purpose of characterizing the genomic landscape before ceritinib and at the time of disease progression.