Active clinical trials for "Small Cell Lung Carcinoma"

Thermal therapy (hyperthermia, or heat) increases chemotherapy cancer cell kill. By itself, thermal therapy can also kill cancer cells. Whole body thermal therapy is a systemic treatment; whole-body fever-range thermal therapy can safely treat cancer cells wherever they are throughout the entire body. In this study, we are testing the combination of fever-range heat treatment and chemotherapy to test 1) The response of three types of cancer (small-cell lung, neuroendocrine cancer, lung cancer, and gastric cancer) to the thermo-chemotherapy improves cancer response compared to the effect of only chemotherapy drugs in current use; 2) whether the thermo-chemotherapy treatment helps the person's own body fight the cancer cells; and 3) whether this treatment is safe and comfortable for the patient. This study does not offer heat treatment alone. Any patient with inoperable or metastatic small cell lung cancer, neuroendocrine cancer (any organ), gastric cancer, or lung cancer, can be treated with the Phase II protocol therapy; however, the patient will need to undergo selected medical tests to make sure this treatment would be safe for them.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether high-dose chemotherapy plus peripheral stem cell or bone marrow transplant is more effective than chemotherapy alone in treating small cell lung cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying how well chemotherapy followed by peripheral stem cell or bone marrow transplant works compared to chemotherapy alone in treating patients with limited-stage or extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

The main purpose of this study is to compare the effects of neoadjuvant with radical surgery on the prognosis of patients with stage II and IIIA small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The primary endpoint of this study is to observe 5-year survival, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in patients. Secondary efficacy indicators include recurrence rate, surgical complications, resection rate, quality of life (QoL), and exploration biomarker (tumor tissue). This is a two-arm, open, multicentral clinical study designed to assess the disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) of neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus radical surgery for stage II and IIIA small cell lung cancer (SCLC). About 300 patients will be enrolled in the study and randomly divided into two groups of 150 individuals. The neoadjuvant with radical surgery group received 2 to 4 cycles of neoadjuvant treatment with etoposide plus cisplatin/carboplatin before receiving radical surgery, followed by 2 to 4 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy (etoposide with cisplatin/carboplatin) plus radiotherapy. Patients in the control group are planned to receive 4 to 6 courses of etoposide plus cisplatin/carboplatin for chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Temozolomide, a nonclassic oral alkylating agent, may delay progression in sequence with chemotherapy. This phase II trial was designed to evaluate the role of Temozolomide following 4 or 6 cycles of first-line treatment in patients with newly diagnosed SCLC.

Anlotinib has been approved as a third-line treatment for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. A phase II clinical studies of small cell lung cancer (ALTER-1210) also showed that, compared with placebo, Anlotinib could improve the patients survival and had less toxic side effects after 2-3 line therapy. The purpose of this multicenter, randomized, prospective study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of Anlotinib as the maintenance therapy for Extensive-stage small cell lung cancer after combined with etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy.

Patients with extensive disease SCLC after failure of first-line treatment were enrolled with SHR-1210 and epirubicin for 3 cycles to evaluate initial efficacy

52 patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer and without progression after completing chemotherapy, will receive apatinib monotherapy as maintenance therapy.

Apatinib has been approved as a second-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer. Several phase III clinical studies of non small cell lung cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer and other tumors also showed apatinib has less toxic side effects and better patient tolerance. However, the clinical application of apatinib in small cell lung cancer is still lack of evidence-based medicine. Etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy is the first-line treatment for small-cell lung cancer. The purpose of this multicenter, randomized, prospective study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of apatinib as the maintenance therapy for extensive stage small cell lung cancer after combined with etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy.

The prognosis of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer is still very poor, even for those who received platinum-based chemotherapy and chest radiotherapy. 2-year survival rate of these patients is only about 10%. Therefore, this study aims to explore a comprehensive treatments with low toxicity to further improve the efficacy for these paitents with PD-1 inhibitor.

As stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) has been widely used in clinical practice at present, the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of stereotactic body radiation therapy compared with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) concurrently with EP regimen(cisplatin plus etoposide) in treating patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer