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Not yet recruitingNCT07647055Updated Jun 15, 2026

Single-Center CyTOF and Viral Imprinting Study in Postoperative Multiple Pulmonary Nodules

An observational study in Multiple Pulmonary Nodules, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-15.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
200
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This multicenter prospective cohort study will enroll adults who have undergone resection of a primary pulmonary nodule and have residual multiple pulmonary nodules or require routine postoperative pulmonary nodule follow-up. During clinically indicated follow-up visits, a small amount of peripheral venous blood will be collected at the same time as routine blood draws for research CyTOF immune phenotyping and viral imprinting-related serology. The study will not assign participants to treatment, change follow-up schedules, imaging, medication, surgery, or other clinical care. Research laboratory results will not be returned to participants or entered into medical records. The study will describe longitudinal peripheral immune-cell profiles and explore associations among T/B/NK cell phenotypes, T-cell differentiation and senescence/exhaustion markers, viral imprinting markers, and postoperative residual or new pulmonary nodule evolution.

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Conditions studied

  • Multiple Pulmonary Nodules

Keywords

  • CyTOF
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In context

Multiple Pulmonary Nodules

99 studies on the registry are indexed under Multiple Pulmonary Nodules; 42 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is below the median of 255 across 51 observational studies indexed under Multiple Pulmonary Nodules.

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Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University is the lead sponsor of 167 studies on the registry; 69 are open to participants now.

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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

Adults who have undergone surgical resection of a primary pulmonary nodule and have residual multiple pulmonary nodules or require routine postoperative pulmonary nodule follow-up at participating centers. Participants will be identified from thoracic surgery clinics, inpatient services, and routine postoperative follow-up programs. Eligible participants will provide written informed consent and will be followed according to usual clinical care; research blood samples and study data will be collected at clinically scheduled visits when routine blood draws and follow-up data are available.

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18 years or older, any sex. Primary pulmonary nodule has been surgically resected, with residual multiple pulmonary nodules or a need for pulmonary nodule-related routine postoperative follow-up.

Planned routine postoperative follow-up at a participating center and able to provide a research blood sample together with routine blood draw when clinically available.

Able to understand the study and willing to provide written before research blood sample collection.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Investigator judges that the participant is unsuitable for additional small-volume blood collection, such as severe anemia, obvious coagulation abnormality, recent severe bleeding, or high risk of severe vasovagal reaction.

Acute severe infection, acute major organ dysfunction, or other condition that may substantially affect peripheral immune status and makes study participation unsuitable.

Current strong therapy that may substantially affect peripheral immune status and cannot be adequately recorded or adjusted for in analysis.

Unable to complete or explicitly refuses use of research blood samples and related data for this study.

Any other condition that, in the investigator's judgment, makes participation inappropriate.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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Informed consent

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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.

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Study design

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

Groups and cohorts

  • Postoperative Multiple Pulmonary Nodule Cohort
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from baseline in percentage of peripheral blood CD8+ CD57+ T cells measured by CyTOF

    CyTOF mass cytometry will measure percentages of CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, B cells, NK cells, Naive/TCM/TEM/TEMRA subsets, CD57-positive cells, HLA-DR/CD38-positive cells, and PD-1/CTLA-4/TIM-3/TIGIT-positive cells. The outcome is the change from baseline in each prespecified percentage or marker-positive frequency.

    Time frame: Baseline and routine follow-up blood collections through 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number and percentage of participants with pulmonary nodule evolution events assessed by routine chest CT

    Time frame: Baseline through 24 months

  2. CMV IgG serostatus measured by institutional immunoassay

    Time frame: Baseline

  3. Research blood collection completion rate

    Time frame: Baseline through 24 months

  4. Blood draw-related adverse events

    Time frame: At each research blood collection visit from baseline through 24 months

  5. EBV VCA-IgG serostatus measured by institutional immunoassay

    Time frame: Baseline

  6. EBV EBNA-IgG serostatus measured by institutional immunoassay

    Time frame: Baseline

  7. HPV L1 antibody serostatus measured by institutional immunoassay

    Time frame: Baseline

  8. CyTOF assay completion rate

    Time frame: Baseline through 24 months

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Jul 2026; primary completion for Dec 2028, 29 months later.

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Registered
Jun 2, 2026
First posted
Jun 15, 2026
StartEst.
Jul 2026
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2028
CompletionEst.
Dec 2028
Last update
Jun 15, 2026
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 Jun 15, 2026, 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
NCT07647055
Responsible party
Jianxing He (Principal Investigator, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 15, 2026
Start date
Jul 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 15, 2026

Study contacts

Jianxing He
Contact
jianxinghe@gzhmu.edu.cn
020-83062810

Oversight

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