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CompletedNCT03394105Updated Mar 8, 2019

Intrapleural Docetaxel Administration Using Medical Pleuroscopy in Malignant Effusion With Lung Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of intrapleural docetaxel administration in Pleural Effusion, Malignant and Non-small Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by Asan Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in Korea, Republic of. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 79 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-03-08.

Sponsored by Asan Medical Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 2 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jul 2016, registered Oct 2017).
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
4
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years to 79 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

In this trial, the effect of intrapleural docetaxel administration using medical pleuroscopywill be evaluated in Lung Cancer patient with malignant effusion.

Read the detailed description

This study is designed to be pilot, single-center, open-label, single-arm, prospective, phase II trial of patient with NSCLC with pleurla effusion. Approximately 40 patients will be enrolled into the trial, and study will be performed to 31Dec2018 from IRB and Korea: MFDS approval date.

Docetaxel will be administed to interpleural space using medical pleuroscopy in malignant effusion with lung cancer. Response evaluation will be done until confiramtion of disease progression.

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Conditions studied

  • Pleural Effusion, Malignant
  • Non-small Cell Carcinoma

Keywords

  • Pleurodesis
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In context

Pleural Effusion, Malignant

169 studies on the registry are indexed under Pleural Effusion, Malignant; 39 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 4 is below the median of 55 across 125 interventional studies indexed under Pleural Effusion, Malignant.

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Lead sponsor

Asan Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 578 studies on the registry; 73 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 79 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 20, and NSCLC patients with malignant pleural effusion and related symptoms
  • ≤ 2
  • Blood test ≥ 1500/mm3, ≥ 8.0g/dl, count ≥ 100000/mm3 Serum creatinine ≤ 1.8mg/dl, Total within normal limits, Transaminases ≤ 1.5 x UNL, Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 X UNL BUN ≤ 25mg/dl, ≥ 50ml/min
  • Negative serum or urine pregnancy test for women for childbearing age
  • Patients who provide written for the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Age \< 20
  • Patients who were previously perfomed pleurodesis
  • Patients who were previously treated with thoracic radiosurgery
  • Patinet with bilateral pleural effusion
  • Age ≥ 80yrs
  • Patients with histories of to Docetaxel
  • Patients with cardiovascular, respiratory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, neunological disease, asthma, MI, stroke, arrhythmia, uncontrolled hypertionsion, etc. that would effect absorption, distribution, and metabolism of IP or be risk factors during IP administrion.
  • Patients who could not understand the study procedure
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
4 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    intrapleural docetaxel administration

    Docetaxel will be administed to interpleural space using medical pleuroscopy in malignant effusion with lung cancer.

    Drug: intrapleural docetaxel administration

Interventions

  • Drugintrapleural docetaxel administration

    intrapleural docetaxel administration using medical pleuroscopy in malignant effusion with lung cancer

    Also known as: Pleurodesis_docetaxel

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall respose rate(ORR)

    Rate of CR and PR

    Time frame: through study completion (2.5 years)

  2. Complete resonse (CR) rate

    Time frame: through study completion (2.5 years)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time to progression(TTP)

    time from the date of the start of treatment until the disease progression or death.

    Time frame: through study completion (2.5 years)

  2. Overall survival(OS)

    time fromthe date of the start of treatment to death or the date of last follow-up

    Time frame: through study completion (2.5 years)

  3. Adverse Event

    Based on National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria

    Time frame: through study completion (2.5 years)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Asan Medical Center
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jul 2016 to primary completion in Jun 2018, 22 months.

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

Registered
Oct 9, 2017
First posted
Jan 9, 2018
StartActual
Jul 26, 2016
Primary completionActual
Jun 22, 2018
CompletionActual
Jun 22, 2018
Last update
Mar 8, 2019
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 Mar 8, 2019, 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
NCT03394105
Responsible party
Chang-Min Choi (associate professor, Asan Medical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 9, 2018
Start date
Jul 26, 2016
Primary completion
Jun 22, 2018
Completion
Jun 22, 2018
Last update
Mar 8, 2019

Study contacts

CHANG-MIN CHOI, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Asan Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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