Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:05 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:05 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03658460
Brief Summary:
Lung cancer patients have a poor prognosis and only around 20 % is alive after 5 years. However, for advanced non-small cell lung cancer immunotherapy has become a cornerstone of treatment.
Two immunotherapeutic drugs for lung cancer have been approved in the last two years. Immunotherapy blocks the capability of cancer cells to inactivate the patient´s immune system, thus re-enabling eradication of cancer cells. In clinical trials, immunotherapy has shown superior survival and less toxicity compared to standard chemotherapy.
Whether the patients are candidates for immunotherapy or not is currently based on an unprecise biomarker that poorly predicts the patients who may benefit from immunotherapy. Immunotherapy can cause severe adverse effects and is expensive. Consequently, novel biomarkers are urgently needed from a patient perspective as well as a socioeconomic perspective.
The objective of the project is to investigate changes in genes and other signals in tissue and blood samples from immunotherapy treated lung cancer patients. The investigators expect to identify new biomarkers that can predict with high precision, which patients may benefit from immunotherapy. On-treatment, the investigators also aim to identify biomarkers that predict the treatment response and reveal the underlying mechanisms when cancer cells become resistant to the treatment.
Study:
NCT03658460
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03658460