View clinical trials related to NSCLC.
Filter by:The recent development of therapies targeting specific biomarkers mutations is changing the standards of care and prognosis of patients with advanced NSCLC, but very few data are currently available on those emerging biomarkers. In addition, the correlation of biomarkers with patients' clinical outcomes in a standard of care setting is poorly understood. This study aims to address that need.
There is no detailed information available on benefits and harms of intensified treatment with concurrent RCHT among a subpopulation of elderly patients. Reliable tools are needed to distinguish the subgroup of fit patients from frail patients.
Calcium is an extremely important ion used in our body for many processes. One of its tasks is to control gene expression. Cells intake calcium from their surroundings though special calcium channels located on the surface membranes of the cells. The great many studies on such calcium channels were performed on excitable cells such as muscle, heart or neuronal cells, where the calcium ions are controlled by voltage. Surprisingly, not much is known about the identity of calcium subunits in non-excitable cells like epithelial cells (which compose most of the connective tissue in the body), liver cells, lung cells, immune system cells, etc. Recently, the investigators have shown that calcium channels from muscles are, in fact, expressed in T cells of the immune system, where they are used for proliferation. The investigators postulated that probably other cell types, especially cancerous cell types, might be using these subunits similarly. The aim of this study is to determine the identity and sequence of calcium subunits expressed in non-small cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC), which accounts for 80% of the worldwide lung cancer deaths.
Tumor genotyping has become an essential biomarker for the care of advanced lung cancer and melanoma, and is currently used to identify patients for treatment with targeted kinase inhibitors like erlotinib and vemurafenib. However, tumor genotyping can be slow and cumbersome, and is limited by availability of tumor biopsy tissue for testing. The aim of this study is to prospectively evaluate a blood-based genotyping tool that can quantify the presence of oncogenic mutations (EGFR, KRAS, BRAF) in patients with lung cancer and melanoma. This assay is being studied both as a diagnostic tool for classifying patient genotype, and a serial measurement tool for quantification of response and progression on therapy.
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are exquisitely sensitive to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) which is widely used in advanced patients. Whether treatment with EGFR-TKIs improves outcomes in patients with resected NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations is still under investigated. This study aims to observe and compare the efficacy and safety of intercalated combination of chemotherapy plus icotinib in patients undergoing resection of EGRF mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer stagingⅠB (with high risk factor) to ⅢA.
This study is a pilot study in EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients who have progressed on standard-dose TKIs. Tumor biopsies will be evaluated for HER2-expression. In case of HER2 expression, patients can participate in the trial after obtaining informed consent. Patients will be treated with weekly paclitaxel-trastuzumab.
EUCROSS is a phase II trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of crizotinib in patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung harbouring ROS1 translocations. Patients will be treated with 250mg crizotinib bid until progression or intolerable toxicity.
The investigators propose to study the efficacy and safety of the combination of Docetaxel plus Bevacizumab in a Phase II trial of elderly subjects with non-small cell lung cancer
The investigators propose to study the safety and efficacy of the combination of Carboplatin plus Gemcitabine in a Phase I/II trial of elderly subjects with non-small cell lung cancer.
This phase Ib study will investigate dose limiting toxicity (DLT) and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of afatinib and ruxolitinib combination therapy, based on the preclinical data that inhibition of IL-6R/JAK1 signal transmission pathway will increase sensitivity to afatinib.