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Almonertinib Treats Advanced NSCLC Patients With EGFR Mutations Who Are Safety Intolerant After Osimertinib Treatment

This is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Almonertinib treatment in patients with EGFR mutation positive and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are intolerant to the safety of osimertinib treatment.

Start: July 2021

Pirfenidone Combined With Standard First-Line Chemotherapy in Advanced-Stage Lung NSCLC

The purpose of this study is to find out what effects (good and/or bad) Pirfenidone combined with standard first-line chemotherapy will have on you and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The investigational drug Pirfenidone is being combined with standard chemotherapy in participants with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Pirfenidone is approved to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) but it isn't currently approved to treat non-small cell lung cancer.

Start: September 2017

National Register Studies in Thoracic Surgery

The overall project aim is to study risk and outcomes following thoracic surgery by cross-linking high-quality national Swedish health-data registers for population-based investigations of individual level clinically relevant patient data.

Start: January 2018

Tissue Engineering Approaches to Treat COPD

The study is a pilot/laboratory study comparing lung tissue from control participants with tissue from COPD participants with a chronic bronchitis or emphysema phenotypes. Tissue will be characterised mechanically and biochemically. Lung cells, including DASCp63/Krt5 with a possible role in disease pathology, will be isolated, expanded in vitro, characterised, and banked. Biomaterials will be selected and tested with regards to mechanical and physical properties and selected for use in the production of TELEs with properties matched to healthy and diseased lung tissue. The resulting TELEs will be tested in an ex vivo tissue culture model to determine the extent of their integration with lung.

Start: August 2017

Radiation Pneumonitis After SBRT for NSCLC

Aims: Evaluate changes in lung function before and after radiotherapy for patients with NSCLC in stage I-III receiving curatively intended radiotherapy To assess the predictive value of pulmonary function tests for the development of radiation pneumonitis after curative radiotherapy To assess biomarkers in blood samples before, during, and after radiotherapy and correlate to the development of radiation pneumonitis Investigate survival

Start: October 2013

Phase I/Ib Study of NIS793 in Combination With PDR001 in Patients With Advanced Malignancies.

To characterize the safety and tolerability of NIS793 as single agent and in combination with PDR001 and to identify recommended doses for future studies.

Start: April 2017

A Prehabilitation Program to Boost Postoperative Functional Capacity in Surgical Lung Cancer Patients

This research study is evaluating a prehabiliation intervention designed to improve postoperative functional capacity (measured by 6-minure walking distance) in individuals undergoing lung resection for cancer.

Start: May 2021

The Thoracic Peri-Operative Integrative Surgical Care Evaluation Trial - Stage II

Despite enormous advances in thoracic surgery and oncology, two critical issues concern patients undergoing curative-intent surgery for lung, gastric and esophageal cancer: first, a majority (~60%) of patients experience minor and major adverse events occurring during and in the days following surgery; second, patients worry about the significant risk of cancer recurrence and mortality months to years after surgery. These issues, combined with side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, have detrimental effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). On a deeper level, there is the problem of an ongoing failure to integrate and evaluate the best of what complementary medicine has to offer surgical oncology care. Too many clinical trials focus on single agent therapies, rather than broad multi-faceted individualized and integrative care interventions that are used in real world settings. The Thoracic POISE project has the overarching goal of improving care for thoracic cancer patients by impacting HRQoL, reducing surgical adverse events, prolonging overall survival and pioneering integrative care delivery.

Start: July 2021

Cetuxibab to Reduce Circulating Tumor Cells in Early Stage NSCLC

Cetuximab to reduce the amound of circulating tumor cells in early stage NSCLC

Start: June 2021

Personal Resilience Empowerment Program Study

The Personal Resilience Empowerment Program (PREP) at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health & Medicine was designed in Legacy Meridian to assist all selected patients with upcoming hospitalization. For the "Personal Resilience Empowerment Program (PREP) in the perioperative setting of surgically treated cancer patients", hereafter "the Project or PREP", the Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health & Medicine is designing a new pilot program to focus on the needs of oncology patients. All patients diagnosed with cancer that will undergo a scheduled surgical (Hepato-Biliary, and Thoracic) procedure in Hackensack Meridian Health and specifically in the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, will be eligible to participate (for more details please see eligibility criteria, section 4). Overall, this pilot project will include 5 coaching sessions and an introductory session/visit that will take place on the physician's office. The initial physician visit will focus on patient eligibility, introduction to the Project, informed consent and a pre-intervention survey and will be conducted by the principal investigator or one of the sub-investigators listed above. The following 5 sessions will be conducted by one of the integrative health coaches/registered nurses (for details please see section 5). A post-intervention survey will be completed during the final session and repeated at one month, and at 3 months from the final session. The goal of this project is to investigate whether using the PREP as an intervention in patients diagnosed with cancer would result in improving various metrics including improvements to resilience, sleep, activity, purpose, nutrition, empowerment to manage one's own health and well-being, decrease in pain medication use and more rapid return to previous functional status according to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).

Start: May 2018

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is a malignant tumor that has transformed from a single cancer disease into one of the most striking global health problems. Lung cancer has an insidious onset, and most patients are first diagnosed with the middle and advanced stage. Cancer related fatigue is the most common and distressing symptom reported by lung cancer patients. For cancer patients, fatigue has lasting impact on physical, psychological and social functions, interferes with activities and participating in life events, thereby worsening the health-related quality of life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is the third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy to improve functioning and health-related quality of life by increasing psychological flexibility. The study aims to examine the effectiveness of ACT on fatigue interference and health-related quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Start: June 2021

Dual-Energy CT on Plan Quality, Dose-delivery Accuracy, and Simulated Outcomes of Patients Treated With Proton or Photon Therapy

The aim of this protocol is to refine the accuracy of proton beam therapy (PT) by the use of dual energy computed tomography (DECT), in conjunction with novel iterative image reconstruction algorithms, to more precisely determine the tissue properties through which the proton beam path travels.

Start: June 2018

Breath Analysis to Diagnose Lung Cancer

Determination of volatile organic compounds to discriminate patients with lung cancer from healthy smokers and non-smokers healthy subjects.

Start: April 2019

Pneumonitis After Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer

Major goals of radiotherapy include local disease control and improvement of the patients' prognoses. One possible side effect of radiotherapy for lung cancer is radiation pneumonitis. Severe (grade ?3) radiation pneumonitis can even be fatal in approximately 2% of the patients. It would be important to identify patients developing radiation pneumonitis and requiring medical treatment early. In the present study, the patients are asked to complete a questionnaire (paper version) once a week during the period of radiotherapy and up to 24 weeks following radiotherapy. In this questionnaire, the patients are asked to state and rate their symptoms potentially associated with pneumonitis. Scoring points are assigned to the severity of the symptoms (symptom scores), and the resulting sum score (patient score) will be used for identification of radiation pneumonitis. The main goal of this trial is to evaluate the usefulness of a new symptom-based scoring system with respect to the identification of patients developing pneumonitis after radiotherapy of breast or lung cancer. The discriminative power of the symptom-based scoring system will be assessed by calculating the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Taking into account that 5% of patients will not qualify for Full Analysis Set, a total of 78 patients should be recruited. If statistical significance of the AUC is reached, the most-informative (optimal) scoring point to identify radiation pneumonitis will be derived. Sensitivity analyses will be conducted to further investigate the performance of the symptom-based scoring system. In 10 patients, the paper version of the symptom-based scoring system (questionnaire) will be supplemented by a mobile application (app) asking the same questions regarding symptoms potentially associated with radiation pneumonitis.

Start: September 2020

IDEAL: Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis Study

This study aims to test the use of novel CT image analysis techniques to enable a better characterisation of small pulmonary nodules. The study will incorporate solid and predominantly solid nodules of 5-15 mm scanned using a variety of scanner types, imaging protocols and patient populations. The investigators hope that the new image processing techniques will improve the accuracy of lung nodule analysis which will in turn reduce the number of unnecessary investigations for benign nodules and may increase the accuracy of the early diagnosis of lung cancer in malignant nodules. This study aims to test this novel analysis software to subsequently allow validation.

Start: August 2018

MPDL3280A With Chemoradiation for Lung Cancer

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn about the safety of adding MDPL3280A to standard chemotherapy (a combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel) and radiation in patients with lung cancer. You are being asked to take part in this study because you have non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is unresectable (cannot be removed by surgery) and has not spread. This is an investigational study. MPDL3280A is not FDA approved or commercially available. It is currently being used for research purposes only. Paclitaxel, carboplatin, and the radiation therapy are all FDA approved for the treatment of lung cancer. The use of these drugs in combination is considered investigational. Up to 40 participants will be enrolled in this study. All will take part at MD Anderson.

Start: January 2016

Visualising c-MET and Activated Neutrophils in Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is currently a major health problem in the UK. Despite being one of the most common cancers, lung cancer has a poor prognosis compared to other types of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. As opposed to other organs, the lung is highly susceptible to inflammatory insults, for example from bacterial infection-induced and tobacco-induced inflammation. It has long been known that the cellular microenvironment that nurtures tumour growth and development is linked to sites of chronic inflammation but molecular insights into how external inflammation boosts or inhibits cancer in the lungs remains unclear. This study aims to directly visualise the expression of a well known marker of cancerous tissue, c-MET, and the activity of neutrophils in human lung cancer in vivo in situ using fibre-based endomicroscopy.

Start: October 2019

PET/MR Imaging in Lung Cancer

The purpose of this project is to investigate if PET/MR imaging improves the accuracy in visualization and characterization of lung cancer disease, compared to PET/CT.

Start: December 2018

Use of Dual Energy Computed Tomography in Thoracic Radiotherapy Planning.

This is a prospective observational study aiming: 1) To quantify lung function using perfusion dual energy computed tomography (DECT) and use this information at the time of treatment planning with preferential sparing of functional lung parenchymal 2) to validate results of lung function obtained using DECT with lung perfusion scintigraphy results, the current standard method; 4) to compare dosimetry of whole lungs vs. functional lungs in patients treated with either stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for early stage lung cancer or conventional radiotherapy for locally advanced lung cancer and 5) to evaluate lung function 6, 12 and 24 months post-radiotherapy with both perfusion DECT and pulmonary function tests and compare radiation dose-map to functional lung-map.

Start: January 2015

A Trial of RSC-1255 for Treatment of Patients With Advanced Malignancies

RSC-101 is a Phase 1a/1b clinical trial of RSC-1255 in adult study participants with advanced solid tumor malignancies who are intolerant of existing therapies known to provide clinical benefit, have disease that has progressed after standard therapy, or have previously failed other therapies. The study has two phases. The purpose of Phase 1a (Dose Escalation) is to confirm the appropriate treatment dose and Phase 1b (Dose Expansion) is to characterize the safety and efficacy of RSC-1255.

Start: February 2021