An observational study in Stage II-III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Sheba Medical Center. Recruiting at 1 site in Israel. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-20.
Sponsored by Sheba Medical Center · Observational
Neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy, with or without adjuvant immunotherapy, is currently the standard of care for resectable stage II-III NSCLC. One of the major drawbacks of neoadjuvant treatment is the risk of surgery cancellation. In most of the studies including a neoadjuvant component of treatment, about 20% of recruited patients do not undergo surgery. The reasons for surgery cancellation are recorded as a mixture of adverse events, disease progression, patient's decision and physician's decision. There is lack of data about the precise reasons for cancellation of the surgery. For patients starting neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy followed be cancellation of surgery, there is lack of data about the need to add additional treatments and about outcome of these treatments. Depending on the reason for surgery cancellation, these patients might undergo salvage radiotherapy (or chemo-radiotherapy), switch to systemic treatment as for metastatic disease or to palliative care.
Goal of the study: to collect real-world data about NSCLC patients that started neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy and did not get to surgery.
Study conduct Participating centers will secure approvals for retrospective collection of clinical data. Relevant patients will be identified from the working database of each center, data will be collected locally, deidentified and collected centrally at the Sheba MC.
Data collected will include: demographics (age, sex); patients' characteristics (smoking status, co-morbidities, ECOG-PS, weight loss); tumor characteristics (histology, molecular tests, specific test results, clinical stage); staging procedures done (CT, PET-CT, brain MRI, EBUS, mediastinoscopy); neoadjuvant treatment (regimen, number of cycles, dose reductions, delays); reason for surgery cancellation; to be categorized according to the following options: iRAE/ non-immune-related AEs/ molecular test results/ re-staging result showing lack of mediastinal clearing/ distant disease progression/ local progression leading to patient becoming not-resectable/ re-assessment of patient as not-resectable (without a significant change in the tumor)/ change in the patient condition making the patient not-operable.
Major Inclusion criteria:
Data collected will include
i. iRAE, ii. non-immune-related AEs, iii. molecular test result, iv. re-staging result showing lack of mediastinal clearing, v. distant disease progression, vi. local progression leading to patient becoming not-resectable, vii. re-assessment of patient as not-resectable (without a significant change in the tumor), viii. change in the patient condition making the patient not-operable.
Inclusion criteria:
Statistical analysis plan:
Data will be analyzed based on the reason defined for surgery cancellation. Analyses will be descriptive, reporting mean, median, 95% C.I. as relevant. Time-to-event measures will be estimated by Kaplan-Meier method. Comparisons between groups will be done in a descriptive manner, using t-test, Chi-square and log-rank test as appropriate.
Ethics: Each participating center will receive approval of the local IRB. Unless waived, each participating patient will sign an informed consent form prior to any study procedure.
Patient data confidentiality: No identifying information regarding participating patients will leave each of the centers. Participants will be given a study code, the key connecting the code to the patients' identity will be kept at each participating site secured as per local regulations of each site.
Data transfer: clinical data files (excel or equivalent) will be transferred to Sheba MC by email.
Data sharing: At the end of the study, the clinical data will be made available to requesting researchers following review of requests.
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Stage II-III NSCLC patient who have started neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy between January 1st 2022 to September 30th 2024.
Inclusion Criteria:
Stage II-III NSCLC patients who started neoadjuvant chemo-immontherapy between January 1st 2022 to September 30th 2024 followed by cancellation of surgery
Rate of patients that do not undergo surgery after initiating NACT-IO
Percentage of patients who do not reach surgery after initiating NACT-IO
Time frame: Up to 6 months after initation of NACT-IO
Causes for surgery cancellation
Percentage of patients whose surgery is cancelled regarding: Toxicity, disease progression, unresectable, inoperable, other causes.
Time frame: Up to 6 months after initation of NACT-IO
Plan to share: Yes — Based on direct communication with study officials
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf
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