View clinical trials related to Lung Cancer.
Filter by:The primary objective of this study is to substantiate prediction accuracy(with a tighter 95% confidence interval compared to current diagnostic modalities), of a lung cancer biomarker for risk stratification of patients into high and low risk categories to aid in clinical evaluation of the patient.
The T and B cells repertoire diversity represent one of the immune defence level which controls the integrity of the organism and determines its ability to recognize and control infectious attacks and development of tumours. The study of the lymphocytes TCR and BCR diversity could permit to better understand how lymphopenia act on overall survival and to improve detection of high risk patients who could benefit of adapted therapies for better care.
RATIONALE: Romidepsin and erlotinib hydrochloride may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of romidepsin when given together with erlotinib hydrochloride and to see how well they work in treating patients with stage III or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.
Aim of the study: The main aim is to collect data of patients with lung cancer, and to perform different analyses on this data. The data contains information on patient and tumor characteristics, imaging, and treatment characteristics. With this data it is possible to improve and validate the predictive model for survival and long term toxicity in lung cancer by multicentric prospective data collection. The long term aim, beyond this specific study, is to build a Decision Support System based on the predictive models validated in this study. Hypothesis: The general hypothesis is that we get a better prediction in terms of AUC (area under the curve) of survival and long term toxicity when we combine multifactorial variables. These variables consist of information from clinical data, imaging data, data related to treatment type and treatment quality.
Investigation of thermal thresholds and sensory mapping to thermal stimuli
The purpose of this study is to try to learn more about how small molecule kinase inhibitor medications work in treating lung cancer. Crizotinib (PF-02341066) is a drug that has been shown to shrink tumors in some patients with lung cancer. While the investigators know how this drug works to stop the growth of tumors that depend on change in the gene named ALK (also called EML4-ALK), the investigators do not know why the drug stops working. The investigators would like to examine the tumor to help us better understand why crizotinib has stopped working as well as it once did. The tumor will be examined with multiple tests to look for the reason that crizotinib stopped working.
This research trial studies prognostic and predictive markers in patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy. Prognostic markers are patient or tumor factors that predict patient survival independent of treatment. Predictive markers are factors that may influence and predict the outcome of treatment in terms of either response or survival benefit. Collecting and storing samples of tissue from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about cancer and identify biomarkers related to cancer.
The aim of this study was to compare the oxygenation index (OI), dyspnea, and pain scale and evaluate the duration of thoracic drainage and pleural air leaks after lung resection in two groups of patients: chest physiotherapy (CP) patients and combined CP and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) patients.
The aim of this study is to assess whether prophylactic treatment with metoprolol or losartan is able to reduce the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients undergoing thoracic surgery for lung cancer, showing elevated plasma levels in NT probrain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), measured in the perioperative period.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Taiwan. The carcinogen in the environment is a key role in the development of lung cancer, and one of its main resource is tobacco. Activated carcinogens in the organism lead to mutations of crucial oncogenes resulting in tumor development. Genes such as Cytochrome P-450 family, GST (glutathione S-transferase) family, UGT (UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase) family, ERCC-1(excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency),ERCC-4 and ERCC-5,are encoding antioxidant enzymes or involving in the DNA repair process and the production of some transcription factors. In recent years, many studies have shown the correlation between these genes and the susceptibility of lung cancer. Each gene has a different role in the tumor development pathway. CYP, UGT, GST, NAT2 (N-acetyltransferase 2) and NQO1(NAD(P)H:quinono oxidoreductase 1) involve in the production of antioxidant enzymes. The antioxidant enzymes can detoxificate hydrogen peroxide or defense against oxidative stress. However, the genetic polymorphisms may influence the function of detoxification, which cause the increase in the susceptibility of lung cancer. P53 and MDM2 genes play important roles in the production of tumor-suppression proteins and the regulation of transcription factors, which may regulate the growth and the apoptosis of cell cycle and influence the susceptibility of lug cancer. The polymorphisms in ERCC genes may cause the damage in the DNA repair process which might also cause increase in lung cancer susceptibility. The overexpression of epidermal growth factor receptor is highly correlated with increasing risk of the non-small cell lung cancers. The overexpression may induce the proliferation of cancer cells and the inhibition of the apatosis. Therefore, in recent years, EGFR has been widely studied as the new target of the drugs and the susceptibility of the lung cancer. In addition,the genetic polymorphisms in drug metabolism channel proteins, like OCT2 (organic cation transporter), ATP7A, ATP7B and ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter may have influence on the metabolism, the efficacy and the toxicity of the drugs.