Thoracoscopy in Patients With Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Information provided by:
Cancer and Leukemia Group B
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00003566
First received: November 1, 1999
Last updated: March 10, 2011
Last verified: March 2011
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures such as thoracoscopy may help to measure a patient's response to previous treatment.

PURPOSE: Diagnostic trial to determine the accuracy of thoracoscopy in patients who have stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.


Condition Intervention
Lung Cancer
Procedure: videothoracoscopy

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
Official Title: Pre-Resection Minimally Invasive Surgical Restaging of Stage III (Mediastinal Node Positive) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

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Further study details as provided by Cancer and Leukemia Group B:

Enrollment: 75
Study Start Date: September 1998
Study Completion Date: March 2006
Primary Completion Date: March 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Evaluate the feasibility of using videothoracoscopy to access and identify residual viable cancer in mediastinal lymph nodes and/or evaluate for other conditions that render patients unresectable (pleural carcinomatosis or T4 primary tumors) following prior mediastinoscopy and a period of neoadjuvant therapy in patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.
  • Evaluate the safety (morbidity and mortality) of preresectional thoracoscopic restaging of these patients.
  • Assess the accuracy (false-negative rate) of thoracoscopic mediastinal node restaging in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients undergo ipsilateral videothoracoscopic evaluation for restaging their disease after prior mediastinoscopy and induction therapy.

Patients with negative restaging procedures are strongly encouraged to undergo anatomic resection (lobectomy, bilobectomy, or pneumonectomy) with complete mediastinal lymphadenectomy.

Patients with a positive restaging procedure may still undergo resection at the discretion of the surgeon and other treating physicians.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 75 patients will be accrued for this study within 30 months.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed stage IIIA non-small lung cancer from a documented mediastinoscopy prior to induction therapy
  • Must have been previously treated with at least 2 courses of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (at least 40 Gy) within 60 days of registration
  • No evidence of distant metastases or local disease progression

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • Not specified

Renal:

  • Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Surgery:

  • No prior intrapleural surgery on the ipsilateral side
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003566

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Sponsors and Collaborators
Cancer and Leukemia Group B
Investigators
Study Chair: Michael T. Jaklitsch, MD Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center
  More Information

Additional Information:
Publications:
Jaklitsch MT, Gu L, Harpole DH, et al.: Prospective phase II trial of pre-resection thoracoscopic (VATS) restaging following neoadjuvant therapy for IIIA(N2) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): results of CALGB 39803. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 23 (Suppl 16): A-7065, 636s, 2005.

Responsible Party: Monica M Bertagnolli, MD, Cancer and Leukemia Group B
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003566     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: CDR0000066632, U10CA031946, CLB-39803
Study First Received: November 1, 1999
Last Updated: March 10, 2011
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by Cancer and Leukemia Group B:
stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases

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