Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

Study aims to determine if functional lung avoidance based on perfusion single photon emission (SPECT)/CT scan, improves toxicity outcomes for patients with advanced lung cancer undergoing chemo-radiotherapy. Functional avoidance implies a dose plan that takes functional distribution in the lung into account, and avoids highly functional lung volumes sparing them from radiation.

To determine if the addition of vancomycin to SBRT increases a Th1 immune response measured by cytokine expression (IFN gamma)

This open-label, multicenter, randomized phase II study will evaluate the usage of osimertinib alone for brain metastases compared to SRS and osimertinib in patients with newly diagnosed, treatment naiive EGFR positive lung cancer.

At present, prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is part of standard care for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who have achieved good response after definitive thoracic radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, the value of PCI is being challenged in the era when MRI examination of brain has been popularized. The goal of this clinical study is to compare PCI and regular brain MRI follow-up (control arm) and regular brain MRI follow-up alone (study arm) in patients with limited-stage SCLC who have received definitive radiotherapy and chemotherapy and acheived complete remission (CR) of tumor. The main questions to answer are: Whether the 2-year brain metastasis-free survival rate of the study group is not inferior to that of the control group. The difference of 2-year overall survival rate between the control group and the study group. Whether the patients in the study group have better overall quality of life than those in the control group. Participants will randomly receive either PCI and regular brain MRI follow-up or regular brain MRI follow-up alone.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Thoracoscopic pulmonary resection is a prevalent management for early stage of lung cancer. Placement of chest tube is the standard procedure after surgery, which causes pain that cannot be ignored. The investigators aimed to determine whether a muscle layer fixation of thoracic drainage tube could release postoperative pain in patients with uniport thoracoscopic pulmonary resection compared with conventional skin fixation.

This is a feasibility study to determine the usefulness of a brachytherapy device that utilizes active components (palladium-103) of standard devices in a novel configuration, which may benefit lung cancer patients by reducing the radiation dose to critical structures, such as the heart wall, while giving a therapeutic dose to diseased tissue, such as at a surgical margin.

A multi-center prospective randomized trial in Taiwan to investigate whether sublobar resection, as compared to lobectomy, can offer equivalent clinical results to treat early non-small cell lung cancer.

This study is open to adults with small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine tumours that are positive for the tumour marker Delta-like 3 (DLL3). The study is in people with advanced cancer for whom previous treatment was not successful or no standard treatment exists. The purpose of this study is to find out the highest dose of BI 764532 that people can tolerate when taken together with another medicine called ezabenlimab. BI 764532 and ezabenlimab are antibodies that may help the immune system fight cancer. Participants get BI 764532 and ezabenlimab as infusions into a vein. If there is benefit for the participants and if they can tolerate it, the treatment is given for a maximum of 3 years. During this time, participants visit the study site about every week. The visits also depend on the response to the treatment. At the study visits, the doctors check the health of the participants, take necessary laboratory tests, and note any health problems that could have been caused by the study treatment.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death worldwide. Lobectomy or sub-lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection is the standard surgery. About 50% lung nodules are pure ground-glass or part-solid nodules. Non-solid nodules rarely develop mediastinal lymph node metastasis. The present study is a prospective, multicenter and randomized clinical trial, comparing the overall survival and disease-free survival of whether performing mediastinal lymph node dissection in non-small cell lung cancer with ground-glass nodule CT features.

Non-small cells lung carcinoma (NSCLC) represents one of the most common and lethal neoplasms. NSCLC is characterized by an early asymptomatic phase, which hinders the disease identification in its earliest stages. As a consequence, NSCLC is often diagnosed at a clinical stage when the potentially curative surgical approach is challenging. In general, NSCLC up to the TNM stage cT3N2M0 are considered operable; in particular, nodal localizations in the homolateral hilus (N1) and underneath the carina (N2) are considered surgically manageable. Identification of nodal disease on the pre-operative PET/CT does not guarantee that all disease-bearing lymph node will be retrieved in the course of the open operative procedure. Smaller nodes might be challenging to identify; moreover, the co-existence of macroscopic and microscopic disease might hinder the radicality of the surgical intervention. This process can be tracked using specific radioactive radiopharmaceuticals, such as radioisotope-labelled colloids, which can be injected in the immediate proximity of the primary and then travel toward the closest cluster of mediastinal lymph nodes. There, they are incorporated in the nodal structure and progress no farther. By employing a radioisotope probe during surgery, all of the first-line nodes (so-called sentinel lymph node, SLN), which receive the lymphatic flow from the tumor region directly, can be identified. The hypothesis of the investigators is that, by performing a radioisotope SLN mapping intraoperatively, the surgeons will be able to detect the metastatization process more accurately than relying on pre-operative imaging alone. The present study will be a prospective and monocentric trial. Clinical, histological, and imaging data collected from examinations performed according to the good clinical practice will be analyzed. The estimated duration of the study is 12 months. It will include the prospective inclusion of patients with a diagnosis of operable NSCLC, who will receive a surgical treatment with curative intent at the investigators' institution (ICH).