Gene Therapy Clinical Trials
Surgery With or Without Internal Radiation Therapy Compared With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With High-Risk Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
RATIONALE: Surgery with or without internal radiation therapy may be an effective treatment for non-small cell lung cancer. Internal radiation uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Stereotactic body radiation therapy may be able to send x-rays directly to the tumor and cause less damage to normal tissue. It is not yet known whether stereotactic body radiation therapy is more effective than surgery with or without internal radiation therapy in treating non-small cell lung cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying how well surgery with or without internal radiation therapy works compared with stereotactic body radiation therapy in treating patients with high-risk stage IA or stage IB non-small cell lung cancer.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.
Stanford Investigator(s):
Intervention(s):
- radiation: iodine I 125
- radiation: stereotactic body radiation therapy
- procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery
Eligibility
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Lung nodule suspicious for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
- Biopsy confirmation is strongly recommended but not required; if biopsy is
attempted and non-diagnostic, if the patient refuses biopsy, or if the risk of
biopsy is considered too high, patients may be enrolled if the mass is suspicious
for NSCLC based on two or more of the following criteria:
- Positive smoking history
- Absence of benign calcifications within suspicious nodule
- Activity on PET greater than normal tissue
- Evidence of growth compared to previous imaging
- Presence of spiculation
- Tumor ≤ 4 cm maximum diameter, clinical stage IA or selected IB (i.e., with visceral
pleural involvement) by PET/CT scan of the chest and upper abdomen performed within 60
days prior to registration
- All clinically suspicious mediastinal N1, N2, or N3 lymph nodes (> 1 cm short-axis
dimension on CT scan and/or positive on PET scan) confirmed negative for involvement
with NSCLC by one of the following methods: mediastinoscopy, anterior mediastinotomy,
endoscopic and/or endobronchial ultrasonography (EUS/EBUS)-guided needle aspiration,
CT-guided, or video-assisted thoracoscopic or open lymph node biopsy
- Tumor verified by a thoracic surgeon to be in a location that will permit sublobar
resection
- Tumor located peripherally within the lung, defined as not touching any surface within
2 cm of the proximal bronchial tree in all directions
- Patients with non-peripheral (central) tumors are NOT eligible
- No evidence of distant metastases
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status (PS) 0, 1, or 2
- Patient at high-risk for surgery by meeting a minimum of one major criteria or two
minor criteria as described below:
- Major criteria
- FEV1 ≤ 50% predicted
- DLCO ≤ 50% predicted
- Minor criteria
- Age ≥ 75 years
- FEV1 51-60% predicted
- DLCO 51-60% predicted
- Pulmonary hypertension (defined as a pulmonary artery systolic pressure
greater than 40 mm Hg) as estimated by echocardiography or right heart
catheterization
- Poor left ventricular function (defined as an ejection fraction of 40% or
less)
- Resting or exercise arterial pO2 ≤ 55 mm Hg or SpO2 ≤ 88%
- pCO2 > 45 mm Hg
- Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC) Dyspnea Scale ≥ 3
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative urine or serum pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No prior invasive malignancy, unless disease-free for ≥ 3 years prior to registration
(except non-melanoma skin cancer, in-situ cancers).
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- No prior intra-thoracic radiotherapy
- Prior radiotherapy as part of treatment for head and neck, breast, or other
non-thoracic cancer is permitted
- Prior chemotherapy or surgical resection for the lung cancer being treated on this
protocol is NOT permitted
Ages Eligible for Study
18 Years - N/A
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Not currently accepting new patients for this trial
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
CCTO
650-498-7061
Not Recruiting