A Phase 2 interventional study of Immediate Local Consolidative Therapy (LCT) in NSCLC (Non-small Cell Lung Carcinoma), sponsored by Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-25.
Sponsored by Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This study explores the difference in progression-free survival (PFS) between local consolidative therapy (LCT arm) targeting residual lesions and continued systemic therapy (non-LCT arm) in patients with metastatic NSCLC who have achieved at least partial response (PR) following first-line chemoimmunotherapy. In this process, a multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising surgical oncology, radiation oncology, and medical oncology will be integrated to administer local treatment modalities-including surgery, radiotherapy, and ablation-for oligometastatic lesions, aiming to address critical clinical questions regarding the optimal beneficiary population for local therapy, the best local treatment modality, and the optimal timing of local intervention.
This study incorporates both a randomized controlled trial (RCT) cohort and a real-world study (RWS) cohort.
RCT Cohort: A prospective, randomized, multicenter clinical study. The primary study population comprises patients with stage IV disease (9th edition TNM staging) who have received 4-6 cycles of first-line immunotherapy combined with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, achieved at least partial response (PR) upon efficacy assessment, demonstrated metabolically active residual lesions on PET evaluation, and been clinically assessed by the multidisciplinary team (MDT) as amenable to individualized local therapy (e.g., ≤3 organs and ≤5 lesions, with feasibility for surgery/radiotherapy/ablation). Patients will be randomly assigned to:
Local Therapy Arm: Receiving local treatment targeting residual lesions, followed by physician-assessed continuation of maintenance systemic therapy or surveillance monitoring; optional local treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and ablation. Assessment of residual lesions will be primarily based on imaging examinations including PET-CT and brain MRI. PET evaluation of residual lesions will primarily reference the PERCIST (PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors) criteria. Compared with baseline imaging, lesions with metabolic activity exceeding that of the mediastinal blood pool or liver on PET evaluation will be considered potentially active residual lesions. The final determination shall be made through multidisciplinary assessment jointly by a radiologist or nuclear medicine physician with more than 10 years of clinical experience, together with thoracic surgeons, pulmonologists, and radiation oncologists.
Systemic Therapy Arm: Continuation of systemic maintenance therapy until disease progression (PD) or intolerable toxicity; upon PD, patients may undergo MDT reassessment for potential local therapy opportunities.
Primary Endpoint:
Progression-Free Survival (PFS): Time from randomization to first documented disease progression or death from any cause.
Secondary Endpoints:
Overall Survival (OS): Time from randomization to death from any cause. Safety of local consolidative therapy. Impact of different local consolidative treatment modalities on prognosis. Time from local consolidative therapy to recurrence/progression of previously existing metastatic lesions.
Time from local consolidative therapy to development of new metastatic lesions.
Exploratory Endpoints:
Tumor Immune Microenvironment (TiME) and prognosis. Tumor dormancy characteristics. Clinical outcomes of different treatment choices after disease progression (PD) in the control arm.
Correlation between ctDNA-based minimal residual disease (MRD) status before and after randomization and prognosis.
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“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.
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“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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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ECOG performance status
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Life expectancy
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Histologically or cytologically confirmed
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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.
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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.
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Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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ULN (upper limit of normal)
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Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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Receiving local treatment targeting residual lesions, followed by physician-assessed continuation of maintenance systemic therapy or surveillance monitoring; optional local treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and ablation. Assessment of residual lesions will be primarily based on imaging examinations including PET-CT and brain MRI. PET evaluation of residual lesions will primarily reference the PERCIST (PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors) criteria. Compared with baseline imaging, lesions with metabolic activity exceeding that of the mediastinal blood pool or liver on PET evaluation will be considered potentially active residual lesions. The final determination shall be made through multidisciplinary assessment jointly by a radiologist or nuclear medicine physician with more than 10 years of clinical experience, together with thoracic surgeons, pulmonologists, and radiation oncologists.
Procedure: Immediate Local Consolidative Therapy (LCT)
Continuation of systemic maintenance therapy until disease progression (PD) or intolerable toxicity; upon PD, patients may undergo MDT reassessment for potential local therapy opportunities.
Patients with stage IV disease (9th edition TNM staging) who have received 4-6 cycles of first-line immunotherapy combined with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, achieved at least partial response (PR) upon efficacy assessment, demonstrated metabolically active residual lesions on PET evaluation, and been clinically assessed by the multidisciplinary team (MDT) as amenable to individualized local therapy. And then receiving local treatment targeting residual lesions, followed by physician-assessed continuation of maintenance systemic therapy or surveillance monitoring; optional local treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and ablation.
Also known as: radiotherapy, ablation
Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
Time frame: Time from randomization to the date of the first documentation of disease progression according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1) or death from any cause, whichever is earlier, assessed up to 60 months.
Overall Survival (OS)
Time frame: time from randomization to the date of death from any cause, assessed up to 60 months.
Safety of local consolidative therapy.
Safety follow-up will be conducted at 30 days (±5 days) after local therapy or prior to the first maintenance therapy following local therapy. Occurrence and severity of adverse events, with severity determined by NCI CTCAE v6.0 criteria.
Time frame: 30 days (±5 days) after local therapy or prior to the first maintenance therapy following local therapy.
Impact of different local consolidative treatment modalities on prognosis.
Impact of different local consolidative treatment modalities on PFS and OS.
Time frame: When a PFS or OS event occurs
Time from local consolidative therapy to recurrence/progression of previously existing metastatic lesions.
Time frame: From date of local consolidative therapy until the date of first documented recurrence/progression of previously existing metastatic lesions, assessed up to 60 months..
Time from local consolidative therapy to development of new metastatic lesions.
Time frame: From date of local consolidative therapy until the date of first documented new distant metastasis, assessed up to 60 months.
Plan to share: Undecided
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