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RecruitingNCT07131163NoSurgeryUpdated Aug 20, 2025

Real World Stage II-III NSCLC Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemo-immunotherapy and no Surgical Resection

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2025, 9 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jul 2024; still recruiting 2 years 2 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
60
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

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:

  1. Stage II-III NSCLC patient, based on clinical staging.
  2. Treated by a chemo-immunotherapy regimen defined as neoadjuvant treatment, for at least one cycle of treatment.
  3. No surgery was performed for at least six months from initiation of the neoadjuvant treatment.
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  1. Participating centers will secure an ethics and administrative approval for retrospective collection of clinical data.
  2. Relevant patients will be identified from the working database of each center, data will be collected locally, deidentified and collected centrally.
  3. Where required, patients will be requested to provide informed consent for the participation in the study.
  4. Data collected will include

    1. Demographics (age, sex)
    2. Patients' characteristics (smoking status, co-morbidities, ECOG-PS, weight loss)
    3. Tumor characteristics (histology, molecular tests, specific test results, clinical stage).
    4. Staging procedures done (CT, PET-CT, brain MRI, EBUS, mediastinoscopy)
    5. Neoadjuvant treatment (regimen, number of cycles, dose reductions, delays).
    6. Reason for surgery cancellation; to be categorized according to the following options:

    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.

  5. Data will be entered to an eCRF, anonymized and collected centrally at Sheba MC.
  6. Analysis of the data according to the statistical analysis plan.

Inclusion criteria:

  1. Stage II-III NSCLC patient, based on clinical staging.
  2. Treated by a chemo-immunotherapy regimen defined as neoadjuvant treatment, for at least one cycle of treatment.
  3. No surgery was performed for at least six months from initiation of the neoadjuvant treatment.
  4. Availability of data about reasons for surgery cancellation and clinical follow up.
  5. Patient's consent for data collection (or waiver of the need for consent by the local ethics committee).
  6. At least 6 mo of follow up after initiation of neoadjuvant treatment.

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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Conditions studied

  • Stage II-III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • neoadjuvant
  • NSCLC
  • Non-small-cell lung cancer
  • immunotherapy
  • chemotherapy
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

6,488 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,632 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 60 is below the median of 161 across 949 observational studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

Sheba Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 660 studies on the registry; 63 are open to participants now.

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
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Stage II-III NSCLC patient who have started neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy between January 1st 2022 to September 30th 2024.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Stage II-III NSCLC patient, based on clinical staging.
  2. Treated by a chemo-immunotherapy regimen defined as neoadjuvant treatment, for at least one cycle of treatment.
  3. No surgery was performed for at least six months from initiation of the neoadjuvant treatment.
  4. availability of data about reasons for surgery cancellation and clinical follow up.
  5. patient's consent for data collection (or waiver of the need for consent by the local ethics committee)
  6. At least 6 month of follow up after intiation of neoadjuvant treatment.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
60 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • NSCLC patients who started neoadjuvant chemo-immontherapy followed by cancellation of surgery

    Stage II-III NSCLC patients who started neoadjuvant chemo-immontherapy between January 1st 2022 to September 30th 2024 followed by cancellation of surgery

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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

  2. 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

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Jusidman Cancer Center, Sheba Medical Center
    Ramat Gan, 5262000, Israel
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Based on direct communication with study officials

Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 20, 2025, 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
NCT07131163
Lead sponsor
Sheba Medical Center
Collaborators
Rambam Health Care Campus, Soroka University Medical Center, Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris, Hadassah Medical Organization, Rabin Medical Center, University Hospital, Geneva, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Mayo Clinic, UOMi Cancer Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 20, 2025
Start date
Jul 16, 2024
Primary completion
Dec 28, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 30, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 20, 2025

Study contacts

Jair Bar, MD-PhD
Contact
Jair.Bar@sheba.health.gov.il
972-3530-7096
Jair Bar, MD-PhD
principal investigator · Jusidman Cancer Center, Sheba Medical Center

Oversight

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