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RecruitingNCT05987345Updated Jul 22, 2024

Trial of Pulsed Electric Field Therapy in Patients With Late-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

An interventional study of PEF and Anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody in NSCLC, sponsored by Energenx Medical LTD.. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 22 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-07-22.

Sponsored by Energenx Medical LTD. · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jul 2024, 2 years 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jul 2023; still recruiting 3 years 4 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
22 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to verify the safety and clinical benefit of pulsed electric field(PEF) treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) patients with acquired resistance to anti programmed cell death protein 1(PD-1) monoclonal antibody therapy.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Safety of PEF treatment of metastatic NSCLC patients.
  • Control of ablated and other targeted lesions.
  • Local and peripheral immunoregulation effect. PEF energy will be delivered to preselected lesions of participants, then anti PD-1 will be routinely administrated if no adverse event(AE)/serious adverse event(SAE) which need medical intervention occurs.
Read the detailed description

Eligible patients will will be enrolled to experimental arm and receive standard of care combining with PEF treatment on Day 1, followed by anti PD-1 on Day 7 and then routinely.

All kinds of adverse events will be recorded and analyzed to evaluate the safety of the treatment. At the same time, the local control rate of treated lesions, PFS and OS after PEF will be analyzed to evaluate the clinical value of the treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • NSCLC

Keywords

  • NSCLC
  • PEF
  • Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor(ICI)
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In context

Lead sponsor

Energenx Medical LTD. is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

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

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients over 22 years old with confirmed non-small cell lung cancer stage III-IV.
  2. Patients received anti immunotherapy and had disease progression.
  3. Lesions to be ablated must be ≤ 3cm in longest diameter(LD).

    * The leison to be ablated can be ≤ 5cm in LD, if evaluated as possible with multiple energy delivery in a single session.

  4. More than one according to 1.1 except PEF targeted lesions.
  5. (ECOG) performance status 0-1
  6. ≥3 months
  7. Fully understand the treatment plan and sign the form voluntarily.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients should be excluded if they received surgery within 30 days.
  2. Patients should be excluded if they received any form of local treatment within 30 days.
  3. Accompanied by uncontrolled of the central nervous system.
  4. Have a history of severe adverse reactions to ICI.
  5. With uncontrolled immune system diseases or being treated with .
  6. Severe abnormality of liver and kidney function, which was evaluated by the researchers as unsuitable for admission.
  7. Patients with abnormal blood coagulation and antiplatelet therapy due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should be discontinued one week before PEF treatment according to the evaluation of clinicians.
  8. Accompanied by infectious diseases that cannot be effectively controlled.
  9. Suffered from other severe lung diseases (including interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis with emphysema, atelectasis, etc.)
  10. Patients who had severe cardiac dysfunction and had a history of arrhythmias in the past 2 years, including rapid atrial arrhythmias, any rapid ventricular arrhythmias, a history of degree II or III atrioventricular block, and sinus bradycardia with a heart rate of less than 45 beats per minute.
  11. Patients who are participating in other clinical trials.
  12. With a cardiac pacemaker or metal implant in the chest.
  13. Women who are pregnant or lactating, or who plan to become pregnant during the study.
  14. The researchers determined that there were other conditions in which patients were not suitable for enrollment.
  15. Patients who have a history of receiving non- anti immunotherapy.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(10)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

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.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
10 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    PEF treatment

    All of participants who signed the Informed Consent Form(ICF) and meet all of inclusion and exclusion criterial will be enrolled to experimental arm. PEF treatment on Day 1, followed by anti PD-1 on Day 7 and then routinely.

    Device: PEF · Drug: Anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Technical success rate of PEF treatment

    The percentage of the number that the equipment successfully reached the target lesion and completed PEF energy delivery.

    Time frame: 7 days

  2. Incidence of PEF treatment related AE/SAEs

    The incidence and severity of PEF treatment related adverse events according to CTCAE version 4.0

    Time frame: 1 month

Secondary outcomes

  1. Local control of ablated lesions by CT

    Compared with the baseline CT scan before treatment, the maximum diameter of the ablated lesion decreased, remained unchanged or increased by less than 20%.

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. Local control of ablated lesions by CT

    Compared with the baseline CT scan before treatment, the maximum diameter of the ablated lesion decreased, remained unchanged or increased by less than 20%.

    Time frame: 6 months

  3. Progression free survival rate at 6 months

    Time frame: 6 months

  4. Overall survival rate at 6 months

    Time frame: 6 months

  5. Overall survival rate at 12 months

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • The first Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510000, China
    Recruiting
    • Li Shiyue, MD · Contact
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 22, 2024, 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
NCT05987345
Lead sponsor
Energenx Medical LTD.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 14, 2023
Start date
Jul 6, 2023
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 31, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 22, 2024

Study contacts

Sara Xu
Contact
info@energenxmedical.com
+86 021 52230973
Shiyue Li, MD
principal investigator · The first Affiliated Hospital of Guanzhou Medical University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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