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.

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.

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.

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.

A pilot, single arm, single center study to determine the feasibility of obtaining stool samples from adult patients receiving SBRT to a lung tumor, if SBRT induces changes in the gut microbiota and to obtain preliminary data about possible correlation of baseline composition and changes in gut microbiota with tumor response, local control, and development of pneumonitis/other side effects.

Genetic rearrangements in the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) gene result in the creation of a variety of oncogenic fusion proteins that drive malignancy in a subset of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) patients. Treatment with the ALK small tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) crizotinib has produced remarkable results for ALK-positive patients, however the current diagnostic tests used in the clinic are not sufficiently detailed and require a tumor biopsy. The aim of this study is to use a new diagnostic test to detect ALK rearrangements using next generation sequencing, which will improve the diagnosis and treatment of ALK-positive NSCLC patients. Furthermore, this test will be performed on blood samples, making it minimally invasive for the patients. It is our believe that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood can be employed as an easy accessible and comprehensive source of information to diagnose ALK-positive disease, but also as a means of monitoring patient response during treatment. Quantitation of the the amount of ALK rearrangement will give information about which patients benefit from treatment and when treatment is no longer effective. The project will be a multicenter study where blood samples will be collected every 6 weeks from patients treated at four major hospitals in Denmark. This study will benefit future patients with lung cancer, as it will improve both the monitoring and evaluation of their treatment. Monitoring patients during treatment will provide more knowledge of disease progression and the effect of ALK-TKI treatment, contributing to a greater selection of patients, who will respond to treatment. This will potentially allow effective treatment to continue longer than with conventional methods

The aim of the Phase 4 study is to test the scale structure, reliability, responsiveness to change and validity of the EORTC QLQ-LC29 in conjunction with the EORTC QLQ-C30 in patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Participants will be enrolled in four groups according to their primary therapy (A. Surgery, B. Radiochemotherapy, C. Targeted therapy, D. Immunotherapy). According to sample size calculations the investigators will include a total of N = 450 patients, but inflating the recruitment goal is permissible.

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

The objectives of this study are to assess the safety and efficacy of single agent Tagrisso (Osimertinib, hereinafter "the study drug") in a real world setting in adult patients with advanced or metastatic, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Who Have Progressed on or after EGFR tyrosine kinase receptor (TKI) therapy.