Clinical Trials

Lung cancer is the leading cause of annual cancer deaths globally, more than breast, prostate, and colon cancers combined. The staging of chest lymph nodes (LNs) is a crucial step in the lung cancer diagnostic pathway because it aids in treatment decisions - whether a patient is a candidate for lung resection, chemotherapy, radiation, or multimodal treatments. Endobronchial Ultrasound Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is the current standard for chest nodal staging for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and guidelines mandate that Systematic Sampling (SS) of at least 3 chest LN stations be routinely performed for accurate staging. Unfortunately, EBUS-TBNA yields inaccurate results in 40% of patients, leading to misinformed treatment decisions. This proportion is much higher in patients with Triple Normal LNs [LNs that appear normal on computed tomography (CT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, and EBUS], which have been found to have a > 93% chance of being truly benign. This is because EBUS-TBNA is based on ultrasound, whose success highly depends on the skill of the person performing it (operator). When the operator makes an error, the entire procedure is jeopardized. This causes downstream delays in treatment due to repeated testing and ill-informed treatment decisions.

Over the past decade, the investigator has been conducting a series of research studies and trials: the development and validation of the Canada Lymph Node Score (CLNS) - a surgeon-derived semi-quantitative measure of LN malignancy; an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based version of the CLNS to predict malignancy; and a fully autonomous AI that learned to predict malignancy directly from ultrasound images, to introduce AI to the decision-making pathway in NSCLC. This resulted in the creation of an AI-powered software to predict malignancy in mediastinal LNs of patients with lung cancer. The software is currently housed in cloud storage and its applications are latent - which means that LN images must be uploaded to the software, and results are received at a future time. In its current form, the software is not ready for clinical application due to this latency. In this project, the investigator aims to build a point-of-care device which will house the software (NodeAI) and deliver real-time results to the surgeon, and this device will be tested in a clinical trial.

This study is being done to study which dose of proton beam therapy (PBT) for unresectable stage 2/3 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of sonidegib in combination with pembrolizumab in participants with advanced solid tumors as part of the dose escalation phase, and to estimate the response rate of sonidegib in combination with pembrolizumab in participants with NSCLC or pancreas cancer as part of the expansion cohort based on RECIST criteria.

This is a Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multinational, and multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy of rovalpituzumab tesirine as maintenance therapy following first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

This is a randomized, open-label, multi-center, global, Phase III study to determine the efficacy and safety of MEDI4736 + tremelimumab combination therapy and MEDI4736 monotherapy versus platinum-based SoC chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) wild-type locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC

The purpose of this study is to test the safety of radiation therapy given at increased doses in a shorter period of time in order to find out what effects, good and/or bad, it has on the patient and the lung cancer. The standard way of giving the radiation therapy is to give it once daily for 6 to 7 weeks. The study is currently testing if a higher amount of radiation therapy per treatment can be given as well as shorten the total number of treatments to 4 or 5 weeks. The goal is that a higher dose of radiation therapy per treatment will be more effective than current standard treatments. In addition to the radiation treatment, patients will receive chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel, which are standard drugs for treating lung cancer.

This study is open to adults with small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine tumours. The study is in people with advanced cancer for whom previous treatment was not successful or no standard treatment exists.

The purpose of this study is to find a suitable dose of BI 764532 (also called obrixtamig) that people with advanced cancer can tolerate. 2 different doses of BI 764532 are tested in this study. Another purpose is to check whether BI 764532 can make tumours shrink. BI 764532 is an antibody-like molecule (DLL3/CD3 bispecific) that may help the immune system fight cancer.

The study has 3 parts. In Part 1, participants are put into 2 groups randomly, which means by chance. Participants have an equal chance of being in either group. One group gets dose 1 of BI 764532 and the other group gets dose 2 of BI 764532. In Part 2 and Part 3, all participants receive the same dose of BI 764532. Part 2 and Part 3 are open to people with a certain kind of tumour called extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma.

All participants receive BI 764532 as an infusion into a vein when starting treatment. If there is benefit for the participants and if they can tolerate it, the treatment is given up to the maximum duration of the study. During this time, participants visit the study site regularly. The total number of visits depends on how they respond to and tolerate the treatment.

The first study visits include an overnight stay to monitor participants´ safety. Doctors record any unwanted effects and regularly check the general health of the participants.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of adding stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to standard treatment (image guided radiation therapy [IGRT] and chemotherapy followed by immunotherapy with durvalumab) versus standard treatment alone in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer that cannot be treated by surgery (inoperable).  

This is an efficacy and safety study to assess pembrolizumab (MK-3475/SCH 900475) compared to standard of care (SOC) platinum-based chemotherapies in the treatment of participants with previously untreated stage IV, programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) strong expressing Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The primary hypothesis of this study is that participants with PD-L1 strong NSCLC will have a longer Progression Free Survival (PFS), as assessed by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) when treated with pembrolizumab than when treated with platinum-based chemotherapies.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate progression free survival, using independent radiologic review, of ASP8273 compared to erlotinib or gefitinib in patients with locally advanced, metastatic or unresectable stage IIIB/IV adenocarcinoma non-small cell lung cancer that has epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activating mutations.

This study will also assess overall survival, overall response rate, progression free survival assessed by the investigator, disease control rate, duration of response, safety of ASP8273, quality of life, and patient-reported outcome parameters.