Spleen Radiotherapy Decreases Severe CIT in Advanced NSCLC (SPLEENIR) (NCT02650700) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Spleen Radiotherapy Decreases Severe CIT in Advanced NSCLC (SPLEENIR)
100 participantsStarted 2016-08
Plain-language summary
Chemotherapy is one of the main treatments for advanced NSCLC. However, chemotherapy induced thrombocytopenia (CIT) is one of the most important limitations for subsequent chemotherapy of cancer.
Although platelet transfusion is the gold standard to treat severe CIT, its clinical application is limited due to many disadvantages, such as short time for storage, not easy to save, the risk of infection and immunological diseases. What's more, other cytokines including IL-11 and rhTPO, are not so useful in clinical work. It is necessary to explore a new therapeutic method to treat CIT.
Researches show that spleen resection could improve the count of PLT. In this clinical trial, we design chemotherapy plus spleen radiotherapy to the subjects with advanced NSCLC, simultaneously, who underwent grade II or worse CIT. The primary endpoint is the incidence of severe CIT (≧grade III) in subsequent chemotherapy, the second endpoints are recovery time from bone marrow suppression and progression free survival, and the exploring index is the immulogical status.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years – 75 Years
Sex
ALL
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Inclusion criteria
. Patients with advanced (Stage IIIA or IIIB AJCC 7) NSCLC that was histologically or cytologically inoperable
. ECOG whole body status (performancestatus,PS) level 0 or 1
. The estimated survival time is more than 12 weeks, 18 \~75 years old
. Laboratory results within 2 weeks prior to radiotherapy met the following criteria: ① Neutrophil count \> 1,500/ MCL Heathko-Pilot Oncology Research Fund; ② Platelet \> 50,000/ MCL; ③ Total bilirubin \< 1.5 times of the normal upper limit value; ④AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) \< 2.5 times of the normal upper limit; ⑤ Serum creatinine \< 1.5 times of the normal upper limit value; ⑥ The results of coagulation function examination were within the normal range
. Women of childbearing age must have taken reliable contraceptive measures or conducted pregnancy tests (serum or urine) within 7 days before admission, and the results are negative, and are willing to use appropriate methods of contraception during the trial period and 8 weeks after the last administration of the trial drug. For men, they must agree to use appropriate methods of contraception or surgical sterilization during the trial period and 8 weeks after the last administration of the trial drug
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