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Filter by:Evaluation of the anatomic extent of a primary lung cancer and presence of metastasis are essential for selection of an appropriate management strategy. Endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a reliable and established technique to evaluate involvement of mediastinal lymph nodes (LN); however, it is an invasive procedure and may not be tolerated in patients with severe underlying lung disease. One exception is the superficially located supraclavicular lymph nodes (SCLN), which can easily be biopsied with percutaneous US-guided-fine needle aspiration (US-FNA). Traditionally, this nodal group is evaluated by palpation; however, literature suggests that palpation itself fails to capture 66% of proven disease by cytology, which challenges the acceptance that non-palpable nodes are indicative of absent disease. Since all palpable SCLN are biopsied to rule out metastasis, we may potentially up-stage more patients using ultrasound evaluation for non-palpable nodes; and offer more appropriate management. Currently, the incidence for non-palpable SCLN metastasis has not been defined in this patient population presenting for EBUS-TBNA. The primary objective is to determine the incidence of supraclavicular lymph node metastasis by ultrasound evaluation in patients referred for EBUS-TBNA.
A Study to Evaluate Safety in Participants with Chemotherapy-naïve Stage IV or Recurrent Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Nivolumab in Combination with Ipilimumab
The primary objective of this phase 1 trial is to determine the dose-dependent toxicity and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of oncolytic adenovirus-mediated cytotoxic gene therapy in combination with SBRT in medically inoperable stage I/IIA (T1A - T2B) NSCLC. To accomplish this objective, 9 subjects will be enrolled in the study. We hypothesize that the combined treatment will demonstrate acceptable toxicity, and that it will be feasible to quantify adenovirus-mediated HSV-1 TK gene expression in the lung by PET. This phase 1 trial will lay the foundation for a follow-up phase 2 trial designed to examine efficacy.
This phase II trial studies how well nivolumab works in treating patients with stage IV lung cancer or that has come back after initial treatment who has high mutation loads. Monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may block tumor growth in different ways by targeting certain cells.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if MEDI4736 given in combination with selumetinib can help to control advanced lung cancer. The safety of this drug combination will also be studied.
Current dose escalation regimens with and without chemotherapy have failed to achieve improved local control and overall survival over standard of care therapy to date. Difficulties with dose escalation have been largely due to dose limiting toxicities of surrounding normal organs, in particular to the normal lung parenchyma, and esophagus. Real time, online adaptive planning using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could achieve significant volume reduction of primary lung disease over the course of therapy, thereby reducing dose to normal structures, and providing a mechanism in which to dose escalate safely, and more effectively with accurate target delineation. The investigators hypothesize that MRI based adaptive planning will provide a novel method to dose escalate safely with acceptable organ at risk doses. In addition, further improvements in radiotherapy targeting accuracy, normal tissue avoidance, and conformality of target-tissue coverage will be achieved through the use of 4D real-time tracking which is derived by deformably registering daily MR and planning MR (MRsim) and Computed Tomography Simulator (CTsim) with advanced non-rigid image-registration tools.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if Imbruvica (ibrutinib) alone and then in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) can control NSCLC in patients who have received previous chemotherapy treatment.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of gemcitabine-carboplatin plus necitumumab in chemotherapy-naïve participants with locally advanced or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
This is a phase 1b/2b study investigating the safety and preliminary antitumor effects of Sym004 in combination with nivolumab versus nivolumab monotherapy when administered every second week.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in France and worldwide. 60% of patients present themselves with a disease diagnosis immediately metastatic non curable. Adenocarcinomas account for 50% of incident tumors. Treatment is based on the platinum-based chemotherapy with or without maintenance therapy. When there is to exhaust this first line, a second line treatment is offered to the patient. Three drugs are allowed in this situation: docetaxel, erlotinib (inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor for epidermal growth factor - TKI-EGFR) and pemetrexed (which in fact has become virtually standard in first online and in combination with platinum in all patients with non-squamous cancer, so that his place is in second line reduced facto). There is no recommendation for treatment in third line situation where only erlotinib is allowed. Most recently, the nivolumab, anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody (which aims to enable immunutaire system) saw its demonstrated effectiveness in the second line and beyond in the two Phase 3 trials where it was compared with docetaxel for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma and non-squamous. The very recent availability in France of the drug under an ATU fact that it will most likely become a standard second line, which will tend to place the third line docetaxel. Therefore, erlotinib will be in 4th line situation. However, in the absence of an EGFR mutation (which is only seen in more than 10% of Caucasian patients) use of the drug does not seem appropriate or even harmful. A selection of patients likely to benefit from the prescription of EGFR TKI-is essential. Neurotensin (NTS) is a polypeptide of 13 amino acids present and active in the central nervous system and the periphery. At the peripheral level, neurotensin is secreted postprandial by endocrine cells in the intestinal mucosa and is involved in the motor functions of the gastrointestinal tract. The effects of neurotensin pass through the activation of three subtypes of receptors which, mainly, NTSR1 and NTSR2 which are receptors coupled to G proteins in the extra-digestive normal tissues, including lung, torque NTS / NTSR1 n is not expressed physiologically. Rather, this complex is likely to recur in tumor tissues. The mechanism of this effect is derogatory activation torque NTS / NTSR1 of matrix metalloproteinases which causes the release by the cell membrane ligands "EGF-like" and thus, activation of HER receptor (EGFR or HER1, HER2 and HER3). Indeed, in experimental tumors created by subcutaneous injection in athymic mouse cell lines adenocarcinomas NTS + / NTSR1 + (non-mutated EGFR), treatment with erlotinib - which blocks EGFR pathway - causes a significant decrease of tumor growth. Expression of the neurotensin receptor in cancer cells metastatic primary bronchial adenocarcinoma is not known. Therefore, its pejorative prognostic value is not confirmed in the metastatic setting.