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
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.
The study is designed as a multicenter, prospective, non-randomized observational cohort. Eligible participants will be identified in thoracic surgery clinics, inpatient services, or routine postoperative follow-up programs at participating centers. After written informed consent, research blood samples of no more than 10 mL per time point will be collected together with routine clinical blood draws when available. No additional clinic visit, imaging examination, treatment, surgery, drug, device, vaccination, or other clinical intervention will be scheduled for research purposes. Peripheral blood will be analyzed using CyTOF mass cytometry to characterize major T-cell, B-cell, and NK-cell lineages, T-cell Naive/TCM/TEM/TEMRA differentiation, CD57-related senescence, activation markers, and immune checkpoint/exhaustion-related markers. Viral imprinting-related serology may include CMV IgG, EBV VCA-IgG, EBV EBNA-IgG, HPV L1-related antibodies, or other tests available within the approved institutional laboratory scope. Clinical and exposure data will be abstracted from routine records and study CRFs, including demographics, smoking and exposure history, relevant comorbidities, pulmonary nodule characteristics, pathology, imaging follow-up, and subsequent biopsy or surgery. Analyses will describe longitudinal immune phenotypes and evaluate exploratory associations between immune reserve, immune senescence, viral imprinting markers, and pulmonary nodule stability, enlargement, new nodule development, imaging risk upgrade, repeat biopsy, or repeat surgery. All research assay results are for group-level research only and will not be used to guide individual diagnosis, treatment, imaging interval, medication, or surgical decisions.
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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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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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:
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.
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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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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.
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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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Adults with a resected primary pulmonary nodule who have residual multiple pulmonary nodules or require pulmonary nodule-related routine postoperative follow-up at participating centers. Participants will be followed according to routine clinical care, and research samples/data will be collected at clinically scheduled visits.
Change in percentage from baseline in peripheral blood CyTOF-defined immune phenotype parameters
Change in percentage of major immune-cell lineages and predefined T-cell differentiation/senescence/activation/exhaustion parameters, including CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, B cells, NK cells, Naive/TCM/TEM/TEMRA subsets, CD57-related phenotypes, HLA-DR/CD38 activation markers, and PD-1/CTLA-4/TIM-3/TIGIT-related checkpoint expression, reported as percentages of parent populations and/or marker-positive frequencies.
Time frame: Baseline and routine follow-up visits through 24 months
Percentage of participants with pulmonary nodule evolution events assessed by routine chest CT
percentage of participants with postoperative residual or new pulmonary nodule evolution, including stable disease, nodule enlargement, new nodule development, increase in solid component, imaging risk upgrade, repeat biopsy, or repeat surgery, as recorded in routine clinical imaging and medical records.
Time frame: Baseline through 24 months
Blood draw-related adverse events
Time frame: At each research blood collection visit from baseline through 24 months
Percentage of participants with positive CMV IgG measured by institutional immunoassay
Time frame: Baseline
CyTOF assay completion rate
Time frame: Baseline through 24 months
Research blood collection completion rate
Time frame: Baseline through 24 months
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Start is estimated for Jul 2026; primary completion for Dec 2028, 29 months later.
Of 24 observational studies under Multiple Pulmonary Nodules, half reached primary completion within 35 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 8 and three quarters within 62. This study's planned 29 months is below that.
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