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Filter by:Single-center, randomized clinical trial (RCT) with low intervention level (Telenursing), for the monitoring of patients affected by lung cancer and melanoma who are candidates for first prescription with Targeted Therapies. The study population will consist of patients suffering from lung cancer and melanoma. The objective of the study will be to evaluate the effectiveness of a Telenursing intervention, comparing the mean score of the total SCNs scale (Supportive Care Needs) after one month of treatment in the treatment arm and in the control arm. Enrolled patients will then be randomized into two treatment arms: - Arm 1 (Control Group): current clinical practice - Arm 2 (Experimental group): Telenursing intervention.
The purpose of the study is to determine whether a preference-oriented quality of life monitoring with defined diagnostic and therapeutic options improves quality of life in patients with lung cancer during routine follow-up care.
Lung cancer patients undergoing upfront surgery, highly benefit from a systematic lymph node dissection in the mediastinum and in the surgical specimens. The latter is performed by the pathologist. Developing a standardized technique to dissect the lobectomy specimen has the potential of maximizing the retrieval of all N1 stations lymph nodes. The investigators believe that the adoption of such technique will improve lung cancer staging and identify a higher number of patients that qualify for adjuvant therapies.
Lung cancer is one of the most diagnosed cancer types worldwide, according to GLOBOCAN data published in 2020. According to these data, lung cancer comes second after breast cancer with 2,206,771 new diagnoses worldwide in 2020. According to Türkiye's data for 2020, 41,264 new lung cancer diagnoses made. Lung cancer tumors are divide into two main histological groups non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Current medical treatment methods for lung cancer are surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapies. Cancer treatments can be administered as a combination of these methods appropriately selected for patients. Advances in treatment methods in recent years have increased survival and prolonged life expectancy. However, these treatment methods may affect patients in various areas from functional independence to quality of life. Cancer treatments can cause various cognitive impairments such as memory, executive functions, and concentration. In particular, a significant number of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy report cognitive disturbances that include attention problems, memory loss, and mixed thought processes ('chemobrain' or 'chemofog?), often accompanied by mood disorders and fatigue. Despite recent large cohort studies using neuropsychological testing and neuroimaging in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, it remains unclear whether cognitive deficits are due to treatment, cancer itself, and/or psychological factors. Patients with cognitive impairment due to chemotherapy reported that they had difficulty performing and completing simple tasks such as preparing meals, keeping track of bills and paying, or getting ready to go out, and needed additional time to perform these tasks. They may also find it difficult to perform necessary work-related tasks and then need to change jobs or cease employment altogether. Therefore, treatment-related cognitive impairment can have a significant impact on cognitive, occupational, and social functioning, all of which can result in significant personal problems and, in many cases, reduced quality of life. During daily activities, we often need to perform multiple tasks at the same time. These tasks are usually cognitive and motor tasks. A dual-task is the simultaneous execution of two tasks that have different objectives and can performed independently. In this case, attention should be focused on two tasks at the same time. These tasks can be measured separately. Deteriorated cognitive function due to cancer and its treatments can affect the dual-task performance of individuals in their daily lives and reduce their quality of life. Respiratory symptoms can be seen in lung cancer and post-cancer survival. Cancer itself and treatments can affect the cardiorespiratory system. Considering that the number of individuals living with lung cancer increases every year, the evaluation of dual-task performance and respiratory muscle endurance, which is related to the cognitive status of individuals, and if necessary, adding them to the rehabilitation program can reduce the symptoms of individuals and increase their quality of life.
Lung cancer is the chief cause of cancer death. The new standard-of-care (SOC) in operable lung cancer combines chemotherapy and an immune-stimulating drug before the surgery (neoadjuvant approach). This results in a large increase in complete cancer clearance rates compared to chemotherapy alone (±30% with combination vs ±4% with chemotherapy alone), leading to much better long-term survival and probably many more cures. However, most still don't achieve complete clearance, and a few have increases in, or spread of, their tumors while on treatment. Therefore, we need to understand why some patients benefit (responders) and others don't benefit (non-responders) on an immunotherapy-based treatment. Also, some patients unpredictably develop severe immune-type side effects related to the immunotherapy drug, although such side effects may be associated with improved anti-cancer effects. In short, the same treatment can result in complete cancer clearance in one patient, and in a worst-case scenario may result in severe toxicity or fail to control spread/growth thus precluding surgery. The immune system obviously plays a key role in both benefit and harm, yet most of the research in this field has focused only on the cancer. We plan an in-depth study in 60 patients, focusing on the cancer as well as the patient's immune system, pre-surgery. This will enable us to identify factors predicting complete cancer clearance, and the occurrence of immune-type side effects. Using highly sophisticated resources available to us here in London, we will develop predictive models enabling better patient management (including possible avoidance of surgery), and identification of key biological differences between major responders and non-responders, to highlight important new targets for the development of even newer and better therapies.
'1. Objective - Primary objective - Median Intracranial Progression-free survival(icPFS) as defined by RANO(Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology) criteria - Secondary objective - Progression free survival(PFS) as defined by RECIST 1.1 - Median Intracranial progression free survival(icPFS) as defined by RECIST 1.1 - Intracranial objective response rate(icORR) as defined by RECIST 1.1 - Overall response rate(ORR) as defined by RECIST 1.1 - Duration of response(DoR) as defined by RECIST 1.1 - Disease control rate (DCR) defined by RECIST 1.1 - Overall survival (OS) ; The time from the date of inital IP administration to death due to any cause - Pattern of Progression ; Site of next progression - Safety objective - To evaluate the safety and tolerability of Trastuzumab deruxtecan.(AEs/SAEs, Vital signs, Collection of clinical chemistry/haematology parameters, ECGs) 2. Exploratory Purpose - To identify mechanisms of adaptive resistance using Guardant 360 panel. To conduct NGS using Guardant 360 panel in serial plasma collection before treatment and at the time of progression. - To identify the profiling of interstitial lung disease (ILD) after treatment of T-DXd. To perform the baseline and follow-up PFT. To perform high-resolution chest CT to evaluate for ILD by radiologic expert. To evaluate cytokine level in serially collected plasma (every 6 weeks for the first 24 weeks and then every 12 weeks). The investigators recommend doing one HRCT at baseline and a second one in the event of ILD. 3. Background Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2, ERBB2)-activating mutations occur in 2% of lung cancers as a distinct molecular target. HER2-targeted therapy is standard of care for HER2-mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd, DS-8201, Enhertu) is a novel antibody drug conjugate that is comprised of 3 components: a humanized anti-HER2 IgG1 monoclonal antibody with the same amino acid sequence as trastuzumab; a topoisomerase I inhibitor payload, an exatecan derivative; and a tetrapeptide-based cleavable linker. Recently, T-DXd induced a confirmed objective response rate (ORR) of almost 61% and a durable benefit in heavily pre-treated patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, according to results from the phase II DESTINY-Breast01 trial. In addition, the DESTINY-Gastric trial showed the superiority of T-DXd compared with standard chemotherapy in terms of response rate and progression-free and overall survival in this setting. Altogether, T-DXd received breakthrough therapy designation and orphan drug designation in gastric cancer, and approval for the treatment of advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. Recently, T-DXd showed durable systemic disease control along with CNS response. Ongoing trials are assessing the activity of T-DXd in patients with breast cancer and active brain metastases. T-DXd has been approved in the US for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic NSCLC whose tumours have activating HER2 mutations, as detected by a FDA-approved test, and who have received a prior systemic therapy. The accelerated approval by the FDA was based on the results from the DESTINY-Lung02 Phase II trial. An interim efficacy analysis in a pre-specified patient cohort showed T-DXd (5.4mg/kg) demonstrated a confirmed ORR of 57.7% (n=52; 95% CI 43.2-71.3), as assessed by blinded independent central review, in patients with previously treated unresectable or metastatic non-squamous HER2-mutant NSCLC. Complete responses (CR) were seen in 1.9% of patients and partial responses (PR) in 55.8% of patients with a median DoR of 8.7 months (95% CI 7.1-NE).
This is a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination therapy with Bojungikki-tang(BJIKT) and pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors express PD-L1 positive with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations. Based on prior pre-clinical studies, the combination of Bojungikki-tang and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can be expected to improve survival and enhance the therapeutic efficacy of ICIs by modulating the systemic tumor-immune environment. Therefore, this clinical trial aims to assess the efficacy and safety of the combined therapy with BJIKT and pembrolizumab and establish clinical evidence for an integrative cancer treatment strategy by examining the survival rate and immune status following combined ICI and BJIKT treatment.
This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of carfilzomib in combination with sotorasib in treating patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic). Carfilzomib is a drug that binds to and inhibits the activity of the protein complex that is responsible for degrading other damaged or unneeded proteins. The inhibition of this protein by carfilzomib can then cause tumor growth inhibition and cell death. Sotorasib is a drug that binds to and inhibits the activity of the KRAS G12C mutant. This may inhibit growth in KRAS G12C-expressing tumor cells. Combining carfilzomib and sotorasib may be a safe and effective treatment option for patients with KRAS G12C-mutated advanced or metastatic NSCLC.
This study is part of the development of a non-invasive lung cancer screening test which aim to identify early-stage lung cancer in patients at high risk for lung cancer.
Patients' pulmonary functions and diffusion capacity worsen following lung cancer surgery. Diaphragmatic activity and lung compliance decrease due to surgery. Peripheral and respiratory muscle functions are impaired in patients with lung cancer, exercise capacity and physical activity level decreased. Patients have postural instability and balance problems. Inspiratory muscle training has increased inspiratory muscle strength in patients with lung cancer. However, there is no study investigating functional inspiratory muscle training in patients with lung cancer.