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The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if giving metformin in combination with radiation therapy is more effective than radiation therapy alone. In this study, participants will receive either metformin or a placebo. A placebo is not a drug. It looks like the study drug but is not designed to treat any disease or illness. It is designed to be compared with a study drug to learn if the study drug has any real effect. This is an investigational study. Metformin is FDA approved for the treatment of diabetes. Its use in this study to be given with radiation therapy to treat lung cancer is investigational. The study doctor can explain how the study drug is designed to work. Up to 70 participants will be enrolled in this study. All will take part at MD Anderson.
Endostar is a anti-angiogenesis product and has been launched in China . The efficacy and safety have been defined. However, the compliance is unsatisfactory since routine i.v of Endostar is needed for 3 to 4 hours daily during one cycle of 14 days. The continuous intravenous infusion by using venous pump can improve the compliance.The comparative study in efficacy and safety has not been done concerning continuous and routine i.v.In addition, what patient can be benefited from Endostar have not been investigated. The biological markers, such as circulating endothelial cells，CECs, will be explored in the study.
The identification of driver mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) as the primary oncogenic event in a subset of lung adenocarcinomas led to a model of targeted treatment and genetic profiling of the disease. EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) confer remission in some patients, but use of the EGFR-TKIs is limited to patients with adenocarcinomas who have known activating EGFR mutations. And resistance to TKI treatment has become an increasingly important cause of treatment failure. Therefore, identification of the molecular components involved could lead to the development of effective therapy. Today only a limited number of genetic alterations are studied. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has the potential of becoming an important tool in clinical and therapeutic decision-making in oncology owing to its enhanced sensitivity in DND mutation detection.
The proposed study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation if a small dose of IV dexamethasone during induction anesthesia in association to pre and postoperative intercostal nerve block, improves quality of recovery of thoracoscopic lung resection patients.
NovellusDx technology identifies tumor-specific driver mutations, but unlike sequencing-based tests, NovellusDx has a functional assay that detects dis-regulated translocation of mutated signaling proteins to the nucleus. This allows NovellusDx to identify functionally-impactful driver mutations regardless of whether the mutation has previously been described or linked to a tumor type.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if it is tolerable for patients with NSCLC to receive afatinib before surgery. The safety of this drug will also be studied.
In 2011, the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) reported that lung cancer mortality was reduced by 20% with spiral computed tomography (CT) compared to chest X-ray. It is estimated that 8 million people in the US are at high risk for lung cancer and that lung screening could prevent 12,000 deaths annually. Cost effectiveness models suggest that concurrent smoking cessation programs will be essential in order to realize the full benefit of screening. However, there are no clinical guidelines or evidence-based cessation protocols with demonstrated effectiveness in this setting. The investigators are addressing this gap by rigorously testing whether two scalable and pragmatic interventions can significantly boost intention to quit and cessation rates.
This research trial studies metabolomic and other molecular profiling to identify predictive biomarkers for radiation toxicity and survival in patients with lung or brain cancers receiving radiation therapy. Studying samples of blood, urine, and tissue from patients with lung or brain cancer in the laboratory may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to cancer and predict which patients are at higher risk for developing radiation side effects and how well patients will respond to radiation treatment.
In the present project we propose a large prospective study in heavy smokers volunteers based on plasma miRNA profiling to assess its efficacy as a first line screening test for lung cancer detection. The study will be articulated in different phases: i) analysis of 1000 plasma samples of disease-free smokers already collected in our biological repository in the last two years ii) de-novo enrollment of 4000 smoking volunteers, collection of their blood samples and inclusion in a program of active surveillance on the basis of their miRNA risk profile iii) assessment of miRNA expression profile using a custom made microfluidic card containing the 24 miRNA previously identified in the diagnostic signatures iii) bioinformatic analyses of miRNA ratios in the cohort in order to determine which individuals are in presence or will develop lung cancer and in particular the aggressive form of the disease iv) assessment of the best diagnostic and treatment algorithm for subjects with suspicious miRNA profiles v) functional validation of miRNAs as novel therapeutic targets using novel cellular genetically engineered models of transformation and patients' tumorgrafts models.