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Filter by:Protocol title: Comparison of cost-effectiveness of continuation maintenance therapy with six cycles of pemetrexed versus pemetrexed until disease progression for metastatic non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Study design: An open-labelled, randomized, phase 2 trial Indication: Patients with stage IV non-squamous NSCLC, an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1, and have received first-line or second-line chemotherapy with pemetrexed plus platinum for 4 cycles Treatment: Maintenance pemetrexed 500 mg/m2 every 3 weeks for six cycles versus until disease progression Objectives: Primary endpoint: 1. Progression-free survival in the intention-to-treat population Secondary endpoints: 1. Cost-effectiveness 2. Overall survival 3. Quality-of-life (QoL) 4. Quality-adjusted progression-free survival (QA-PFS) 5. Quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) 6. Tumor response rate 7. Adverse events Planned sample size: 36 patients in each arm; total 72 patients Total number of sites: 1 site Duration of patient enrollment: 3 years
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Taiwan and worldwide. With the advancement of thoracoscopic technique, thoracoscopic surgery has emerged as a reasonable option for the management of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Additionally, current lung cancer screening policy recruits increasing number of candidates requiring thoracoscopic lung resections because of lung nodules/tumors. Traditionally, intubated general anesthesia with one-lung ventilation using a double-lumen endotracheal tube or an endobronchial blocker has been considered mandatory in thoracoscopic surgery. However, adverse effects of intubated general anesthesia are not negligible. Recently, a nonintubated thoracoscopic technique has developed to reduce the adverse effects of intubated general anesthesia with encouraging results. Nonetheless, the role of nonintubated technique in thoracoscopic lung resection surgery in quality of postoperative recovery in not clear. As an enhanced recovery is the major goal of modern minimally invasive surgery, the investigators hypothesize that nonintubated thoracoscopic technique can facilitate and improve the recovery quality after surgery. To this end, the investigators will recruit 300 patients in subgroups including patients undergoing segmentectomy/lobectomy, wedge resection and geriatric patients in this two-year project. Patients will be randomly allocated in nonintubated and intubated groups and quality of recovery of all patients will be evaluated according the protocol of Postoperative Quality of Recovery Scale. In the meantime, the preoperative and postoperative cytokines will be compared between the groups as well as patients with different recovery scales.
Lung cancer patients experience significant physical symptoms, psychological distress and have many supportive care needs that impact on quality of life. Implementing the role of a Lung Cancer Nurse (LCN) is a response to meet the needs of patients and caregivers. Primary aim is to assess the feasibility of a LCN intervention and feasibility to collect longitudinal patient self-assessment questionnaires at the Thoracic Cancer Centre of the University Hospital of Lausanne. Secondary aims are: i) to describe self-reported changes in self-efficacy, symptoms and unmet supportive care needs across three time points during the first line therapy and ii) to explore professional acceptability of the new LCN model evaluating the perceptions of barriers and facilitators of the model by the LCN and the other multidisciplinary members of the comprehensive lung cancer care team. An exact single-stage (no interim analysis) design will be applied to determine feasibility for further studies to be undertaken. Secondary outcomes will be analyzed descriptively at each data collection (Baseline, Time1, Time2) time point and professional acceptability will be explored by focus groups with selected members of the interdisciplinary team.
The role of sublobar resection(Wedge resection or anatomic segmentectomy) for small(≤ 2cm) early stage non-small cell lung cancer has been studied by Lung Cancer Study Group and is being studied by several ongoing trials. However, elderly patients(aged ≥70 years) in these trials is under-represented, as in most of the ongoing clinical trials. This study focuses on the elderly population of early stage lung cancer, and aims to investigate the outcome of lobectomy versus sublobar resection for peripheral stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in elderly patients.
Here we are going to find a method by using available multiple drugs including angiogenesis medicine - Endostar to treat lung cancer patients who acquired resistence from EGFR-TKI but have responsed to it before.
This study is aimed to evaluate the progression-free survival(PFS) and also survival of IP and EP (head-to-head) as the first line therapy for extensive stage small-cell lung cancer and to explore the reasonable first-line therapy for Chinese population. An open-label, multi-center study will be conducted with dynamic randomization of approximately 1:1 ratio with an estimation of 308 eligible participants.
The purpose of this study is to studying neoadjuvant gefitinib followed by surgery, followed by adjuvant gefitinib to see how well it works in treating patients with unresectable stage III NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations.
The randomized controlled multicenter clinical study of compound Kushen Injection to reduce the radiotherapy related adverse reactions in lung cancer is a phase Ⅳ clinical trials，The main purpose is to evaluate the effect of compound Kushen Injection in preventing and reducing the radiotherapy related adverse reactions. The participants of the clinical trials are patients with lung cancer who need thoracic radiotherapy. In clinical trials, one group of participants is given compound Kushen Injection with chemoradiotherapy, while another group is only given chemoradiotherapy. The period of trials is 18 months.
Apatinib is a new kind of selective Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2(VEGFR-2) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). The investigators have finished the preclinical,phase I and phase II clinical studies and found its promising anti-tumor activity and tolerable toxicities. A disease-control rate of 61.1% and a mPFS of 4.7 months were showed in apatinib phase II study in patients with NSCLC. The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of apatinib to placebo in advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer patients.
This study is designed to determine if changes in acetyl amantadine (AA) metabolism with systemic chemotherapy - reflective of SSAT1 activity - are predictive of response to systemic therapy in patients with lung cancer. Ten patients with adenocarcinoma and 10 with small-cell cancer who are at American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stages 3 or 4 at the time of diagnosis will participate. AA metabolites will be examined by ELISA prior to initiation of systemic chemotherapy and after the second cycle of therapy. Changes in the pattern of metabolites will be correlated with convention clinical and radiographic response criteria.