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Filter by:This is a phase 2 study. The goal of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, taking erlotinib and ruxolitinib has on the patients and on lung cancer. Erlotinib and ruxolitinib are FDA approved for other indications, but the use of erlotinib and ruxolitinib together has not been studied before and is not FDA-approved.
Up to 85% experience shoulder pain after thoracic surgery, especially on the same side as surgery are performed. Referred phrenic nerve pain is probably one cause of ipsilateral shoulder pain (ISP), and positioning of the arm during surgery another. Studies indicates that ISP can be caused by the positioning of the patient during surgery due to muscle -and ligament strain. Can a change in the surgical positioning (less press and stretch) of the ipsilateral arm effect the shoulder pain after thoracic surgery?
Denutrition and Obesity are risk factors for perioperative surgical complications. In patient with cancer, incidence of denutrition is markedly increased. Surgical resection of cancer induces a high intensity cellular stress response and catabolism reinforcing the risk for perioperative denutrition. In this study, we thought to investigate the change in body composition during the perioperative period using anthropometric measurements and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA).
1. Part A: Subjects will receive Patritumab or placebo with erlotinib. Progression-free survival will be the primary outcome. Subjects will need to have Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) wild-type, locally advance or metastatic NSCLC and have their cancer progressed after at least one prior systemic anti-cancer therapy, available recent or archival tumor specimen and may not have had previous EGFR-targeted regimen, anti-HER2 (Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2), anti-HER3, or anti-HER4 therapy. Subjects may have high heregulin or low heregulin. 2. Part B: Subjects will receive Patritumab or placebo with erlotinib. Overall survival will be the primary outcome. Subjects will need to have EGFR wild-type, locally advance or metastatic NSCLC and have their cancer progressed after at least one prior systemic anti-cancer therapy, available recent or archival tumor specimen and may not have had previous EGFR-targeted regimen, anti-HER2, anti-HER3, or anti-HER4 therapy. Only subjects with high heregulin will be enrolled.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the LungPoint ATV System in patients who are scheduled for standard bronchoscopy to diagnose highly suspicious lung cancer.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the LungPoint ATV System.
The cone beam image is a part of the radiotherapy treatment machine and uses lower energy xrays as the head of the radiotherapy machine moves around the patient in a circle. This takes pictures that give 3-dimensional information, somewhat like a CT scan. These images are better at showing the position of the tumour and surrounding soft tissues than the standard xrays that were previously used. Cone Beam Imaging Technology is not new and has been used regularly at The Christie for many years. The standard cone beam scan is taken before the actual radiotherapy treatment or after the treatment has been delivered. Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT or Arc Radiotherapy) is a novel method of delivering radiotherapy that involves the continuous movement of the radiotherapy treatment machine head around the patient and MLC during radiation. Arc radiotherapy has been clinically implemented at The Christie for prostate radiotherapy treatments and work is in progress for implementation in lung radiotherapy. The continuous gantry rotation inherent to VMAT delivery makes this simultaneous imaging possible, although there are concerns associated with the impact that this may have on patient dose and image quality. The aim of this research is to assess whether the image quality of cone beam scans taken during treatment are as good as standard cone beam scans taken before or after treatment used to determine the accuracy of patient position and the tumour coverage by radiotherapy.
Lung cancer kills 160,000 patients annually; this represents 28% of all US cancer deaths. The overall year survival rate has only improved from 12% to 17% in 33 years. This failure reflects the innate lethality of lung cancer, but also reflects defects in patient care delivery. Care for the lung cancer patient starts with an abnormal radiologic scan, proceeds through a diagnostic biopsy, tests to determine the extent of spread of the disease (stage), selection of appropriate treatment, and finally ends with patient outcomes. At each step are multiple options and independent specialists, each one engaged by a process of sequential referrals in the serial care model. This process is often not user-friendly, is riddled with inefficiency, delays, and outcome variances. The coordinated multidisciplinary model, in which patients and their doctors collaborate to provide evidence-based care, is believed by experts to be superior, but has few examples of successful implementation. The implementation gap exists because of the paucity of good quality data, and lack of implementation know-how. Embedded in the highest US lung cancer mortality zone, the greater Memphis area has a racially, culturally, economically and geographically diverse population. The investigators research group has shown how poor quality care impairs patient survival in this region and in the greater US. The investigators have linked patient survival to compliance with multidisciplinary care plans. In this project, the investigators propose to rigorously test the impact of the multidisciplinary care model on patient outcomes in a community-based, private practice environment, similar to where 70% of lung cancer care is delivered in the US. The objective of this study is to provide high-level evidence of the impact of multidisciplinary care on lung cancer patient outcomes. Multidisciplinary care is defined as a model of care in which patients, their care-givers and key specialists concurrently and directly evaluate the same patients in the presence of the patients and their informal caregivers, in order to develop evidence-based consensus care plans
Use of a microfabricated silicon device to concentrate ultra trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human exhaled breath for quantitative analysis of VOCs.
This registry is intended to measure the effect of myPlan Lung Cancer™ test has on treatment decisions of Surgeons when added to standard clinical-pathological parameters in patients with early stage NSCLC.The sponsor is conducting two parallel registries, with one directed at Surgeons (ONC003) and the other at Oncologists (ONC006).This registry is specific to Surgeons (ONC003). Outcomes measures on lung cancer relapse and death from any cause will be collected.