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Non-Small Cell Lung CancerNCT02146170

Tissue Procurement and Natural History Study of People With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer, Extrapulmonary Small Cell Cancer, Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumors, and Thymic Epithelial Tumors

An observational study of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

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Trial summary

Background: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. It causes more than one million deaths every year. Researchers want to gather tissue samples from people with lung and thymic cancers to understand the disease better. This may lead to new ways to diagnose and treat it. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
How many people
2,000 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
28 May 2014to 31 Dec 2029
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC, SCLC, ESCC, PNET, and TET

Who may be able to join

  • Individuals with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC, SCLC, ESCC, PNET, and TET.
  • Individuals consulted in the Clinical Center without a definitive diagnosis, but clinically considered likely to have a malignancy of the above histologies, pending further tissue acquisition and/or pathology review.
  • Age greater than or equal to18 years. Children are excluded from the study, as the above thoracic malignancies are rare in this population.
  • Ability of subject to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

Who cannot join

  • Active symptomatic major organ disorder that would increase the risk of biopsy, including but not limited to ischemic heart disease, recent myocardial infarction, active congestive heart failure, pulmonary dysfunction.
  • Active concomitant medical or psychological illnesses that may increase the risk to the subject, at the discretion of the Principal Investigator.
  • Known HIV-positive individuals not on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Shannon G Swift, R.N. contact

(240) 858-3157

shannon.swift@nih.gov

Arun Rajan, M.D. contact

(240) 760-6236

rajana@mail.nih.gov

United States1 site, 1 recruiting
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

    For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact Office of Patient Recruitment (OPR), 800-411-1222 ext. TTY dial 711, ccopr@nih.gov

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About this study

Official title: Tissue Procurement and Natural History Study of Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer, Extrapulmonary Small Cell Cancer, Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumors, and Thymic Epithelial Tumors

Background:

  • Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. It causes more than one million deaths every year. Researchers want to gather tissue samples from people with lung and thymic cancers to understand the disease better. This may lead to new ways to diagnose and treat it.
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Objective:

  • To collect tissue samples for use in the study of lung cancers.

Eligibility:

  • Adults over age 18 with non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, extra pulmonary small cell cancer, pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors, and thymic epithelial tumors.

Design:

  • Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical exam, and blood tests. They will be asked about how they perform their daily tasks.
  • Participants may be asked to give urine and blood samples. They may give a saliva sample if they cannot give blood. They will also give a sample of their tumor from a biopsy they had. They may also be given the option to undergo a biopsy.
  • Participants may have MRI, CT, and/or PET scans of the body. They will lie in a machine that takes pictures of the body.
  • After visits to the Clinical Center end, researchers will contact participants by phone every year to check on their health.
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Background:

  • Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, accounting for more than one million deaths every year.
  • Several genetic and epigenetic alterations are involved in initiation and progression of NSCLC. Some of these alterations are seen in normal and pre-neoplastic cells as well, suggesting a sequential development from normal epithelial cells to cancer, through a multistep process, usually coincident with cigarette smoking.
  • This natural history protocol is an extension of our Molecular Profiling protocol to enable tissue collection for more in-depth proteomic and genomic analyses to understand tumor biology and treatment response.
  • A cohort of patients enrolled in this natural history study is likely to enroll in the IRB approved protocol for end-of-life in-patient hospice and rapid autopsy following death (13-C-0131). Longitudinally collected tumor tissue from these patients, including from several metastatic sites at autopsy will be a unique resource to understand tumor evolution.
  • There will be opportunity to embark upon a wide array of studies in the future with the longitudinally collected tissue samples tagged with clinical information from patients.

Objectives:

  • To allow sample acquisition for use in the study of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), extrapulmonary small cell cancer (ESCC), pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors (PNET), and thymic epithelial tumors (TETs).

Eligibility:

  • Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC, SCLC, ESCC, PNET, and TET.
  • Patients consulted in the Clinical Center without a definitive diagnosis, but clinically considered likely to have a thoracic malignancy of the above histologies, pending further tissue acquisition and/or pathology review.
  • Age greater than or equal to 18 years.

Design:

  • This is a biospecimen collection and natural history protocol in which samples will be collected from patients with NSCLC, SCLC, ESCC, PNET, and TET.
  • Eligible patients undergoing screening for or participating in NIH protocols or eligible patients treated elsewhere and referred from other oncologists will be referred for participation in this study.
  • Upon providing informed consent, patients will undergo sample acquisition procedures, which may include a tumor biopsy, bone marrow biopsy or the collection of blood, urine or other body fluids.
  • An accrual ceiling of 2000 subjects is planned.
Keywords
Sample Acquisition, Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations, Mig6 Expression, Proteomic Analysis, Genomic Analysis, Natural History
Medical subject headings
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Small Cell Lung Carcinoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT02146170
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Single groupPatients with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC, SCLC, ESCC, PNET, and TET

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Allow sample acquisition for use in the study of thoracic malignancies except mesothelioma.

    blood, tumor, body fluids, and normal tissue samples

    Measured: Ongoing

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Follow the natural history of patients with thoracic malignancies.

    clinical data, including overall survival

    Measured: ongoing

  2. Conduct genomic, proteomic and immunological analyses on blood, tumor, body fluid and normal tissue in support of NIH translational trials to develop new therapeutic agents and novel treatment approaches as well as new prognostic and diagnostic ...

    Specific studies include, but not limited to genomic analyses using NGS technologies (exome, transcriptome and/or whole genome sequencing), DNA methylation analyses, DNA copy number analyses, proteomic studies including mass spectrometry, capillary Westerns, reverse phase protein microarrays (RPPA), luminex assays, ELISA and IHC, and metabolomics studies using mass spectrometry.

    Measured: ongoing

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted23 May 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study start28 May 2014
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2029 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
2,000 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02146170
Sponsor's protocol ID
140105
Other IDs
14-C-0105
Status last verified
13 Oct 2026
First submitted
8 May 2014
Last updated
16 Oct 2026
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: All IPD recorded in the medical record will be shared with intramural investigators upon request. In addition, all large scale genomic sequencing data will be shared with subscribers to dbGaP.

Publications

  • Weir BA, Woo MS, Getz G, Perner S, Ding L, Beroukhim R, Lin WM, Province MA, Kraja A, Johnson LA, Shah K, Sato M, Thomas RK, Barletta JA, Borecki IB, Broderick S, Chang AC, Chiang DY, Chirieac LR, Cho J, Fujii Y, Gazdar AF, Giordano T, Greulich H, Hanna M, Johnson BE, Kris MG, Lash A, Lin L, Lindeman N, Mardis ER, McPherson JD, Minna JD, Morgan MB, Nadel M, Orringer MB, Osborne JR, Ozenberger B, Ramos AH, Robinson J, Roth JA, Rusch V, Sasaki H, Shepherd F, Sougnez C, Spitz MR, Tsao MS, Twomey D, Verhaak RG, Weinstock GM, Wheeler DA, Winckler W, Yoshizawa A, Yu S, Zakowski MF, Zhang Q, Beer DG, Wistuba II, Watson MA, Garraway LA, Ladanyi M, Travis WD, Pao W, Rubin MA, Gabriel SB, Gibbs RA, Varmus HE, Wilson RK, Lander ES, Meyerson M. Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma. Nature. 2007 Dec 6;450(7171):893-8. doi: 10.1038/nature06358. Epub 2007 Nov 4.

    PubMed 17982442
  • Imielinski M, Berger AH, Hammerman PS, Hernandez B, Pugh TJ, Hodis E, Cho J, Suh J, Capelletti M, Sivachenko A, Sougnez C, Auclair D, Lawrence MS, Stojanov P, Cibulskis K, Choi K, de Waal L, Sharifnia T, Brooks A, Greulich H, Banerji S, Zander T, Seidel D, Leenders F, Ansen S, Ludwig C, Engel-Riedel W, Stoelben E, Wolf J, Goparju C, Thompson K, Winckler W, Kwiatkowski D, Johnson BE, Janne PA, Miller VA, Pao W, Travis WD, Pass HI, Gabriel SB, Lander ES, Thomas RK, Garraway LA, Getz G, Meyerson M. Mapping the hallmarks of lung adenocarcinoma with massively parallel sequencing. Cell. 2012 Sep 14;150(6):1107-20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.08.029.

    PubMed 22980975
  • Rikova K, Guo A, Zeng Q, Possemato A, Yu J, Haack H, Nardone J, Lee K, Reeves C, Li Y, Hu Y, Tan Z, Stokes M, Sullivan L, Mitchell J, Wetzel R, Macneill J, Ren JM, Yuan J, Bakalarski CE, Villen J, Kornhauser JM, Smith B, Li D, Zhou X, Gygi SP, Gu TL, Polakiewicz RD, Rush J, Comb MJ. Global survey of phosphotyrosine signaling identifies oncogenic kinases in lung cancer. Cell. 2007 Dec 14;131(6):1190-203. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.11.025.

    PubMed 18083107
  • Fialkoff G, Takahashi N, Sharkia I, Gutin J, Hermoni N, Nirula M, Kumar R, Pongor L, Nichols S, Sciuto L, Parmar K, Desai P, Suresh P, Abel M, El Meskini R, Maoz M, Rottenberg Y, Nevo S, Nechushtan H, Peretz T, Roame D, Hubert A, Cohen JE, Salah A, Temper M, Grinshpun A, Weaver-Ohler Z, Rajan A, Figg WD Sr, Zick A, Sadeh R, Friedman N, Thomas A. Plasma nucleosome profiling reports on tumor burden and molecular subtypes in small cell lung cancer. J Clin Invest. 2026 Oct 1;136(19):e202151. doi: 10.1172/JCI202151. eCollection 2026 Oct 1.

    PubMed 42820295
  • Wong-Rolle A, Dong Q, Zhu Y, Divakar P, Hor JL, Kedei N, Wong M, Tillo D, Conner EA, Rajan A, Schrump DS, Jin C, Germain RN, Zhao C. Spatial meta-transcriptomics reveal associations of intratumor bacteria burden with lung cancer cells showing a distinct oncogenic signature. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Jul;10(7):e004698. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004698.

    PubMed 35793869

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Shannon G Swift, R.N. ((240) 858-3157, shannon.swift@nih.gov), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Allow sample acquisition for use in the study of thoracic malignancies except mesothelioma. (time frame: Ongoing). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02146170, which also lists 5 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 Oct 2026.

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