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Non-small Cell Lung CancerNCT03724500

Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cell in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

An observational study of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

Unknown status

Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

From literature review, circulating tumor cell was demonstrated its possible role in disease relapse. It was rare nit could be identified in all lung cancer patients. In addition, circulating tumor cell usual aggregate to form circulating tumor micro-emboli and caused distant metastases. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 90 years
Conditions the study is for
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
How many people
65 participants
Where
1 siteTaiwan
Study dates
1 Feb 2017to 31 Dec 2024
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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 to 90 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Patients with a resectable malignant or suspicious malignant pulmonary lesion

Who may be able to join

  • Non-small cell lung cancer patients with stage I to III
  • Patients with resectable suspicious pulmonary malignant lesion
  • no pre-operation diagnosis ( patients refused biopsy or difficult for biopsy)
  • image survey showed clinical stage I to III

Who cannot join

  • Final pathology coexisted with small cell lung cancer component
  • Patients who presented as stage IIIb or IV.
  • Not received curative intended surgery due to multi-comorbidities.
  • Patients who presented in tumor seeding or positive resection in the final pathology
  • Patients who received neoadjuvant therapy.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Taiwan1 site
  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    Taoyuan, 333

Other trials in Taiwan

About this study

From literature review, circulating tumor cell was demonstrated its possible role in disease relapse. It was rare nit could be identified in all lung cancer patients. In addition, circulating tumor cell usual aggregate to form circulating tumor micro-emboli and caused distant metastases. Therefore, circulating tumor cell could play a role in detect disease relapse and appropriate treatment could be given more earlier and further prolong patients' survival. However, the detail clinical significance of circulating tumor still remain unknown. The aim of this study was evaluate the clinical significance, including present timing, numbers, and correlation to disease relapse, of circulating tumor cell in lung cancer patients. Investigators want to clarify the clinical significance between circulating tumor cell and clinical presentation of lung cancer in order to establish new prediction model and improve lung cancer patients' survival.

Read the detailed description

Lung cancer was a major cause of cancer-related death worldwide. According to statistical data from Ministry of Health and Welfare, the incidence of lung cancer related death was 25.5 per 100,000 population. According to NCCN guideline, the standard treatment for patients with resectable disease is anatomic resection and mediastinal lymph node dissection. The current prognostic system, TNM system, was based of patho-histologic characteristics and this system provide the most important information about disease-free and overall survival for corresponding disease severity. According to investigators previous studies, investigators've identified risk factors for all lung cancer patients with resectable disease and poor prognostic factors in different TNM stage. Investigators could utilized factors that designed for all patients as an initial survey and further subgroup patients into high or low risk for relapse in subsequent stratification that utilized grading system in different TMN stage. If investigators could identified high risk patients, more aggressive treatment and follow up program may decreased risk of disease relapse and prolong patient survival.

From literature review, circulating tumor cell was demonstrated its possible role in disease relapse. It was rare nit could be identified in all lung cancer patients. In addition, circulating tumor cell usual aggregate to form circulating tumor micro-emboli and caused distant metastases. Therefore, circulating tumor cell could play a role in detect disease relapse and appropriate treatment could be given more earlier and further prolong patients' survival. However, the detail clinical significance of circulating tumor still remain unknown. The aim of this study was evaluate the clinical significance, including present timing, numbers, and correlation to disease relapse, of circulating tumor cell in lung cancer patients. Investigators want to clarify the clinical significance between circulating tumor cell and clinical presentation of lung cancer in order to establish new prediction model and improve lung cancer patients' survival.

Keywords
Non small cell lung cancer, Circulating tumor cell
Medical subject headings
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Neoplastic Cells, Circulating

What is being measured

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

  1. Variation trend of circulating tumor cell counts

    Relationship between variation trend of circulating tumor cells and disease relapse in patients with a suspicious pulmonary lesion after tumor resection

    Measured: 1. Circulating tumor cell counts in pre-op, post-op, post-operation day 1 and post-operation day 3 ; 2.need complete 5-years surveillance (disease status confirmation)

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Malignancy prediction capacity of circulating tumor cell counts

    Relationship between pre-operation circulating tumor cell counts and malignancy

    Measured: Pre-operation circulating tumor cells ( sampled before operation at operation day)

Timeline

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

  1. First posted30 Oct 2018
  2. Study start1 Feb 2017
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2024 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2024 (estimated)

Resources

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
65 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03724500
Sponsor's protocol ID
CGMH-IRB-104-8753B
Status last verified
Sep 2023
First submitted
23 Oct 2018
Last updated
22 May 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Fernandes G, Sucena M, Lombardia E, Machado A, Hespanhol V, Queiroga H. Non small cell lung cancer - comparison between clinical and pathological staging. Rev Port Pneumol. 2006 Jul-Aug;12(4):337-57. English, Portuguese.

    PubMed 16969567
  • McCann J. PET scans approved for detecting metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1998 Jan 21;90(2):94-6. doi: 10.1093/jnci/90.2.94. No abstract available.

    PubMed 9450567
  • Vaz AP, Fernandes G, Souto Moura C, Bastos P, Queiroga H, Hespanhol V. Integrated PET/CT in non small cell lung cancer staging--clinical and pathological agreement. Rev Port Pneumol. 2012 May-Jun;18(3):109-14. doi: 10.1016/j.rppneu.2012.01.004. Epub 2012 Mar 8. English, Portuguese.

    PubMed 22405953
  • Wu CY, Fu JY, Wu CF, Hsieh MJ, Liu YH, Wu YC, Yang CT, Tsai YH. Survival Prediction Model Using Clinico-Pathologic Characteristics for Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Patients After Curative Resection. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015 Nov;94(45):e2013. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002013.

    PubMed 26559298
  • Wu CY, Fu JY, Wu CF, Liu YH, Hsieh MJ, Wu YC, Yang CT, Tsai YH. Pathologic Stage of Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Patients Presenting as Resectable Cases After Neoadjuvant Therapy Did Not Predict the Prognosis. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015 Oct;94(40):1. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000001700.

    PubMed 26448022
  • Wu CF, Fu JY, Yeh CJ, Liu YH, Hsieh MJ, Wu YC, Wu CY, Tsai YH, Chou WC. Recurrence Risk Factors Analysis for Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015 Aug;94(32):e1337. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000001337.

    PubMed 26266381
  • Wu CF, Wu CY, Fu JY, Wang CW, Liu YH, Hsieh MJ, Wu YC. Prognostic value of metastatic N1 lymph node ratio and angiolymphatic invasion in patients with pathologic stage IIA non-small cell lung cancer. Medicine (Baltimore). 2014 Oct;93(20):e102. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000102.

    PubMed 25365403
  • Hsieh CP, Fu JY, Liu YH, Yang CT, Hsieh MJ, Tsai YH, Wu YC, Wu CY. Prognostic factors in resectable pathological N2 disease of non-small cell lung cancer. Biomed J. 2015 Jul-Aug;38(4):329-35. doi: 10.4103/2319-4170.145765.

    PubMed 25432594
  • Tognela A, Spring KJ, Becker T, Caixeiro NJ, Bray VJ, Yip PY, Chua W, Lim SH, de Souza P. Predictive and prognostic value of circulating tumor cell detection in lung cancer: a clinician's perspective. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2015 Feb;93(2):90-102. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2014.10.001. Epub 2014 Oct 12.

    PubMed 25459665
  • Tanaka F, Yoneda K, Kondo N, Hashimoto M, Takuwa T, Matsumoto S, Okumura Y, Rahman S, Tsubota N, Tsujimura T, Kuribayashi K, Fukuoka K, Nakano T, Hasegawa S. Circulating tumor cell as a diagnostic marker in primary lung cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Nov 15;15(22):6980-6. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-1095. Epub 2009 Nov 3.

    PubMed 19887487
  • Pantel K, Speicher MR. The biology of circulating tumor cells. Oncogene. 2016 Mar 10;35(10):1216-24. doi: 10.1038/onc.2015.192. Epub 2015 Jun 8.

    PubMed 26050619
  • Yoon SO, Kim YT, Jung KC, Jeon YK, Kim BH, Kim CW. TTF-1 mRNA-positive circulating tumor cells in the peripheral blood predict poor prognosis in surgically resected non-small cell lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer. 2011 Feb;71(2):209-16. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.04.017. Epub 2010 May 14.

    PubMed 20471712
  • O'Flaherty JD, Gray S, Richard D, Fennell D, O'Leary JJ, Blackhall FH, O'Byrne KJ. Circulating tumour cells, their role in metastasis and their clinical utility in lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2012 Apr;76(1):19-25. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2011.10.018. Epub 2011 Dec 29.

    PubMed 22209049
  • Hou JM, Greystoke A, Lancashire L, Cummings J, Ward T, Board R, Amir E, Hughes S, Krebs M, Hughes A, Ranson M, Lorigan P, Dive C, Blackhall FH. Evaluation of circulating tumor cells and serological cell death biomarkers in small cell lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Am J Pathol. 2009 Aug;175(2):808-16. doi: 10.2353/ajpath.2009.090078. Epub 2009 Jul 23.

    PubMed 19628770
  • Hofman V, Long E, Ilie M, Bonnetaud C, Vignaud JM, Flejou JF, Lantuejoul S, Piaton E, Mourad N, Butori C, Selva E, Marquette CH, Poudenx M, Sibon S, Kelhef S, Venissac N, Jais JP, Mouroux J, Molina TJ, Vielh P, Hofman P. Morphological analysis of circulating tumour cells in patients undergoing surgery for non-small cell lung carcinoma using the isolation by size of epithelial tumour cell (ISET) method. Cytopathology. 2012 Feb;23(1):30-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2010.00835.x. Epub 2011 Jan 6.

    PubMed 21210876

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

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 5 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 22 May 2024. 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 Taiwan. 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?

Results are not available in the source record.

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

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Variation trend of circulating tumor cell counts (time frame: 1. Circulating tumor cell counts in pre-op, post-op, post-operation day 1 and post-operation day 3 ; 2.need complete 5-years surveillance (disease status confirmation)). 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 NCT03724500, which also lists 23 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 22 May 2024.

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