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CompletedNCT01854684Updated Jul 22, 2022

Photodynamic Therapy During Surgery in Treating Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer That Can Be Removed by Surgery

A Phase 1 interventional study of Temoporfin and Therapeutic Conventional Surgery in Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, Stage IIA Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma and Stage IIB Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-07-22.

Sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
8
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of photodynamic therapy during surgery in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer that can be removed by surgery. Photodynamic therapy uses a drug, such as temoporfin, that becomes active when it is exposed to a certain kind of light. When the drug is active, cancer cells are killed. This may be a better way to treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To demonstrate that intraoperative adjuvant regional photodynamic therapy with low-dose temoporfin is safe.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Initial assessment of efficacy (i.e., 2-year disease free survival). II. To investigate the relationship between signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) levels, measured light dose and the clinical outcome.

III. Correlate the serum concentrations of vitamin D metabolites (25-hydroxyvitarnin D3 and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3) with the presence of lymph node (LN) metastasis at the time of surgical resection.

IV. To measure temoporfin uptake in malignant and normal tissue.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of photodynamic therapy with temoporfin.

Patients receive temoporfin intravenously (IV) over no less than 6 minutes and then undergo standard surgical resection with intraoperative photodynamic therapy (PDT).

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months for 2 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
  • Stage IIA Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
  • Stage IIB Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
  • Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Stage IIIB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

6,641 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,665 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 8 is below the median of 62 across 5,327 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

Roswell Park Cancer Institute is the lead sponsor of 417 studies on the registry; 64 are open to participants now.

Of its 38 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 21 (55%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
  • Patients with resectable primary NSCLC who are undergoing surgery to resect T3 to T4 lesions OR any patients with clinical NI or N2 disease regardless of T-stage
  • Subjects must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scale of 0-2
  • Subjects of child-bearing potential must agree to use adequate contraceptive methods (e.g., hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for 6 months after surgery; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately
  • The subject or legal representative must understand the investigational nature of this study and sign an Independent Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board approved written informed consent prior to receiving any study related procedure
  • Must consent to participate in study I 03103: Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) Data Bank and Biorepository (DBBR)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier
  • Patients with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial
  • Patients with porphyria, or with known hypersensitivity to porphyrins or porphyrin-like compounds
  • White blood cell (WBC) \< 4,000
  • Platelet count \< 100,000
  • Total serum bilirubin > 2 mg/dL
  • Serum creatinine > 2 mg/dL
  • Alkaline phosphatase (hepatic) or serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) > 3 times the upper normal limit
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
  • Pregnant or nursing female subjects
  • Unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements
  • Any condition which in the Investigator's opinion deems the subject an unsuitable candidate to receive study drug
  • Received an investigational agent within 30 days prior to enrollment
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
8 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment (surgery and intraoperative PDT)

    Patients receive temoporfin IV over no less than 6 minutes and then undergo standard surgical resection with intraoperative PDT.

    Drug: Temoporfin · Procedure: Therapeutic Conventional Surgery · Drug: Photodynamic Therapy · Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis · Other: Pharmacological Study

Interventions

  • Given IV

    Also known as: Foscan, mTHPC

  • ProcedureTherapeutic Conventional Surgery

    Undergo surgical resection

  • DrugPhotodynamic Therapy

    Undergo intraoperative PDT

    Also known as: Light Infusion Therapy™, PDT, Photoradiation Therapy

  • OtherLaboratory Biomarker Analysis

    Correlative studies

  • OtherPharmacological Study

    Correlative studies

    Also known as: pharmacological studies

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Maximum tolerated dose of PDT with temoporfin, defined as the dose level in which more than 1 of 6 patients experience a dose limiting toxicity using National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4

    Time frame: 2 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Locoregional recurrence-free rate

    Estimated using simple relative frequencies. The corresponding 95% confidence interval for the estimated probability will be computed using the method proposed by Clopper and Pearson. Maximum likelihood estimation will be utilized in the model fitting procedures.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  2. Overall survival

    Distribution will be obtained using the Kaplan-Meier method. Corresponding confidence intervals using the methodology of Brookmeyer and Crowley will be computed.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  3. Progression free survival

    Distribution will be obtained using the Kaplan-Meier method. Corresponding confidence intervals using the methodology of Brookmeyer and Crowley will be computed.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  4. Toxicity rate, using NCI CTCAE version 4

    Estimated using simple relative frequencies. The corresponding 95% confidence interval for the estimated probability will be computed using the method proposed by Clopper and Pearson. Maximum likelihood estimation will be utilized in the model fitting procedures.

    Time frame: Up to 30 days after completion of study treatment

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Study locations

1 site
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    Buffalo, New York 14263, United States
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Feb 2014 to primary completion in Sep 2018, 54 months.

Of 206 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, half reached primary completion within 55 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 37 and three quarters within 80. This study's 54 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 588 studies reached it within 51 months; a quarter within 31 and three quarters within 74.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
May 13, 2013
First posted
May 15, 2013
StartActual
Feb 21, 2014
Primary completionActual
Sep 4, 2018
CompletionActual
Sep 4, 2018
Last update
Jul 22, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 22, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01854684
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 15, 2013
Start date
Feb 21, 2014
Primary completion
Sep 4, 2018
Completion
Sep 4, 2018
Last update
Jul 22, 2022

Study contacts

Chukwumere Nwogu
principal investigator · Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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