Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

This proposal evaluates cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibition as a means to decrease T regulatory cell activities and thus augment immune responses against lung cancer. The broad goal focuses on understanding how COX-2 expression regulates the malignant phenotype in non small cell lung cancer in an effort to foster an informed approach for the use of COX-2 inhibitors in prevention and therapy for lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The emergence of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has revolutionized the treatment of lung cancer over the past 10 years. Nivolumab, ipilimumab, pembrolizumab, atezolizumab, and durvalumab have been successively approved in non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, and pleural mesothelioma. Although the efficacy of ICIs is remarkable in some patients, the objective response rate is only about 20%. The development of predictive biomarkers for treatment response is essential. Non-invasive methods and easily accessible biomarkers at low cost are required.ICIs activate the immune system through the inhibition of checkpoints (PD-L1, PD-1). The immune system and the liver are interconnected and constantly interact through a complex regulatory system. Patients with lung cancer frequently suffer from liver damage, due to metastases, treatments or underlying pathologies. The objective of the study is to evaluate the clinical significance of key liver biomarkers (AST, ALT, PAL, GGT, bilirubin, PT) in patients with lung cancer treated with ICI.

This proof-of-concept study serves as the preliminary step to prove safety of oral activated charcoal (OAC) in patients with solid tumors before moving to a hematologic malignancy patient population.

Phase 1 - open label, multi-center, non-randomized, safety, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics dose escalation study of PF-06459988 as a single agent in patients with advance EGFRm NSCLC (del 19, L858R, +/- T790M). The resulting PF-06459988 dose selected from the phase 1 portion will undergo a series of sub-studies to fully characterize the impact of food, antacid and CYP3A4 inhibitors/inducers. The PK studies are in addition to the MTD expansion and will be completed prior to the initiation of Phase 2. Phase 2 is an open label, multi-center single-arm study of PF-06459988 for the assessment of antitumor activity in patients with advanced EGFRm (del 19 or L858R) NSCLC with T790M.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. Lung cancer is unique because of racial disparity, persistent mortality rate, and social stigma. Lung cancer stigma (LCS) and difficult patient-clinician communication may be an underlying factor in health disparities in lung cancer. The purpose of this study is to PILOT test, in a diverse sample of lung cancer patients the effectiveness of the mHealth Tool for Lung Cancer patients (mHealthTLC), an interactive, immersive 3-dimensional iPad application that allows individuals to experience first person virtual visits with their clinicians, to improve patient-clinician communication, decrease LCS, and promote optimal self-management. The study hypotheses are that patients who receive the mHealth TLC will improve their ability to communicate effectively with their clinicians and will report decreased stigma related to their lung cancer diagnosis compared to the attention control group.

This trial is intended to evaluate the value of circulating tumor cells (CTC), in combination with unenhanced (without injection of contrast media) low dose (to limit the effective radiation dose below 1,5 mSv) chest computed tomography (LDCT) in the screening of Lung cancer (LC). LDCT screening was shown to reduce LC mortality in smokers and ex-smokers, older than 55 years, with a history of more than 30 pack-years. LDCT however shows a close to 30% rate of false positive that require repeat follow-up and also invasive investigations, but also false negatives with metastatic LC being discovered between screening rounds. Migration of circulating tumor cells (CTC) is an early event of carcinogenesis and characterizes aggressive cancers. We recently showed that CTC can be detected with the ISET technique in a population at high risk for LC, i.e. COPD patients before LC was detectable on LDCT. The study will focus on patients at very high risk for lung cancer i.e. smokers and ex-smokers suffering Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The study will enroll 600 participants who will undergo three rounds of screening at one year intervals, each round combining search for CTC on a blood sample and LDCT. Each participant will be followed for at least one year after the last screening round

This pilot clinical trial studies how well acceptance and commitment therapy works in improving well-being in patients with stage III-IV cancer and their partners. Learning how to accept negative thoughts and feelings and how to live in the present without worrying about the future or past may improve coping skills in patients with stage III-IV cancer and their partners.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is one of seven sites worldwide within the Atlantic consortium that is developing the Elekta MR-Linac (MRL) prior to commercial release at the end of 2017. The MRL allows MR images of patients to be acquired before, during and following radiotherapy (RT). One area where The Christie is taking the lead within the consortium is the application of the MRL for lung imaging and treatment, an area where MRI has hardly been used. MRI scans provide greater soft tissue contrast than CT scans which can aid in the accurate delineation of organs at risk (OAR) and tumour target volumes for MRL and routine treatment. In addition, MRI can provide real time imaging which can aid in the accurate motion characterisation of these volumes. The addition of functional diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has also proven to be useful in the discrimination of malignant from benign lesions; for lymph node detection and for the differentiation of tumour from atelectasis. Auto-contouring has the potential to speed workflows at various points in the clinical pathway. This may be inter-patient contour propagation used pre-treatment for plan creation, or may be during online or offline adaptive workflows propagating contours through imaging acquired as treatment progresses. In collaboration with industry the investigators will be testing such algorithms on these images retrospectively. In addition, the investigators would also like to evaluate patients' experiences of CT and MRI scans and determine which scanning method is preferred. Other studies have explored patient experiences of MRI compared to CT but not in the lung cancer patient population.

The aim of the study is to retrospectively monitor the 'gross tumor volume' (GTV) before initiation of radiotherapy and its changes during radiotherapy and to correlate them with retrospectively recorded patient data, as well as with prognostic and therapeutic outcome after definite radiotherapy of locally advanced NSCLC in stage UICC III.

Prospective observational study to IDEntify patients with advanced/metastatic NSCLC and ALK and ROS1 translocation and to establish their therapeutic management (IDEALK&ROS)