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Filter by:This study evaluates the optimal intervention time of radiotherapy for oligometastatic stage iv lung cancer.
Radiation therapy uses radiation to treat lung tumors and metastases in the mediastinum. In order to irradiate as precise as possible, and in order to evaluate the effect of radiation treatment, it is important to depict the lung tumor and the lymph node metastases as accurate as possible. Currently, radiation oncologists use PET-CT for this purpose. However, PET-CT does have its drawbacks, and partly because of this, large volumes are irradiated in current treatment. The investigators believe that MRI can be used to improve depiction of the tumor and lymph nodes and of their motion. However, there is currently no MRI protocol available which is aimed at improving radiotherapy. In this study, the investigators want to select the optimal MRI settings for depiction of the lung tumor, the lymph node metastases and their movement. The investigators plan to do this by first examining 10 healthy volunteers, followed by 20 patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Description of new transcriptional profiles associated with risk of relapse and identification of specific sites of relapse in non-small cell lung cancer, toxicity and resistance to adjuvant chemotherapy in completely resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
The NSCLC patients who experienced good clinical responses to an EGFR-TKI will inevitably develop acquired resistance. A great deal of research are focusing on this issue. Arsenic trioxide showed efficacy and safety in acute promyelocytic leukemia, multiple myeloma and other solid tumors. Moreover, preclinical studies showed arsenic trioxide can reduce the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy and TKIs.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Icotinib is efficient and safe in treating advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with hepatic insufficiency.
Platinum-based doublets including paclitaxel, gemcitabine, or docetaxel are standard 1st regimens in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer(NSCLC). The traditional method of individualizing cytotoxic drug dose is by using body surface area(BSA), which is not correlated with the ability of an individual to metabolize or excrete cytotoxic drugs, because it is not related to liver function and is poorly correlated with glomerular filtration rate, and does not seem to be a determinant of toxicity. Pharmacokinetic parameters such as area under the curve have been shown to correlate with toxicity. The advantages of using a fixed dose of antineoplastic agents for all of the patients are obvious. Pharmacokinetically guided treatment would avoid severe adverse effects, which has not been sufficiently investigated in advanced NSCLC.First, the investigators monitor the blood concentrations of paclitaxel and neutropenia blood toxicity after chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients of NSCLC and verify suitable paclitaxel therapeutic window for Chinese patients. Then the investigators compare safety and efficacy between individual paclitaxel dose adjustment based on the therapeutic window compared with conventional dosage.
VeriStrat® is a pretreatment blood-based test correlated with clinical outcome after EGFR-TKI therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The investigators hypothesis is that VeriStrat could be also employed as a biomarker of benefit from treatment with standard chemotherapy regimens in first line NSCLC patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare safety and effectiveness of Chemotherapy in Combination With Erlotinib,or Sequential Erlotinib for Treatment in Patients With EGFR - TKI Resistance of EGFR Mutations
To compare clinical response (complete response and partial response) by RECIST) rates by RECIST between erlotinib monotherapy and docetaxel plus cisplatin chemotherapy
Objective: To compare the efficacy and safety of chemotherapy plus intercalated EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) combination therapy with TKI alone therapy as first-line treatment for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: Patients with untreated, stage IIIB/IV, EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC will be randomly assigned to combination therapy group (receiving four cycles of docetaxel or pemetrexed (on day 1) plus platinum (on day 1) with intercalated TKI (gefitinib, erlotinib or Icotinib, on day 2-15) every 3 weeks) or TKI alone therapy (gefitinib, erlotinib or Icotinib, daily). All patients were continued to receive TKI until progression or unacceptable to toxicity or death. The primary endpoint was progression-free survivial (PFS). Expected results: PFS of combination therapy group will be prolonged to nineteen months while PFS of TKI alone therapy group is ten months. Overall survival (OS) of combination therapy group will be prolonged to 36 months while OS of TKI alone therapy group is 26 months. Hypothesis: Platinum-based chemotherapy plus intercalated TKI combination therapy as first-line treatment will prolong PFS and OS for patients with NSCLC.