Active clinical trials for "Lung Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures such as chest x-ray and chest CT scans may be effective in early detection of lung cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of a chest CT scan given once a year with that of a chest x-ray given once a year in detecting lung cancer in patients at a high-risk of developing lung cancer.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and imaging ability of 111In-DAC when used with planar and SPECT imaging for the detection of lung cancer and brain cancer consistent with metastatic lung cancer.

The aim of the study is to assess the prevalence and pattern of isolated fungi from patients with lung cancer at the time of diagnosis.

The objective of the study was to compare the therapeutic benefit of capmatinib versus appropriate comparative therapy (ACT) defined by the German HTA agency G-BA for its benefit assessment of capmatinib but also versus the standard of care (SoC) practiced in German routine care. Due to its design as an adjusted, patient-level comparison, the RECAP study addresses the evidence gap due to the single-arm nature of pivotal evidence for capmatinib. For this purpose, data on patients treated with ACT resp. SoC in German routine care has been collected via a retrospective chart review. This data was then used as an external control for a non-randomized, patient-level adjusted comparison with data from the GEOMETRY mono-1 study of capmatinib (NCT02414139). Due to the non-interventional nature of this study, the definition of endpoints as primary or secondary was omitted formally.

This study aimed to confirmed that local radiotherapy for residual lesions can significantly prolong the efficacy of chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy in the initial treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

The main aim is to see how treatment patterns and drugs might improve care for adults with advanced or metastatic NSCLC with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon-20 driven mutations. Past medical records will be reviewed. No clinic visits or procedures will be required.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized lung cancer (LC) treatment, demonstrating a significant improvement in overall survival. However high-grade immune-related adverse events (irAEs) may result in harmful and serious clinical outcomes, even death. Immune-related hepatitis (IRH) is a potentially serious complication of checkpoint blockade, with an incidence of 5%-10% for ICIs monotherapy, including 1%-2% with grade 3 or higher. Therefore, it is particularly important to explore new and better prognostic and predictive biomarkers for IRH.

We retrospectively analyzed lung cancer patients who had NAICT and surgery in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital. NAICT was defined as chemotherapy that included at one application of PD-1 inhibitor.

This study evaluates whether doctors are familiar with the statistical background of lung cancer screening.

Lung cancer is commonly characterised either with a surgical procedure or by taking a tissue sample with a needle. Unfortunately, these invasive approaches may be unsafe in many patients with lung cancer, who often have co-existing illnesses such as emphysema. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a type of scan which offers the possibility of assessing tumour function by measuring concentrations of chemicals (metabolites) within the abnormal tissue. It is a well-established technique in imaging brain cancers. It has also been more recently studied in assessing prostate, liver and heart. There has been very little exploration of the potential role of MRS in lung cancer. The proposed feasibility study will recruit 15 patients with proven lung cancer to undergo an MRS scan. The reliability of the technique for metabolite measurement will be determined by comparing repeated scans from the same region in the same tumour. Further scans from different regions in the same tumour, normal lung around the tumour and tumour regions in different patients will be used to look for any patterns in the cancer metabolites which may indicate avenues for potential future research.