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Electroacupuncture Combined With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors as Adjuvant Therapy After Surgery for Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Observation on the Clinical Efficacy of Electroacupuncture Combined With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors as Adjuvant Therapy After Surgery for Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 2Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT07034326
Enrollment
405
Registered
2025-06-24
Start date
2025-01-01
Completion date
2028-12-31
Last updated
2025-06-24

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Conditions

Electroacupuncture, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Brief summary

Postoperative immunoadjuvant therapy has been proven to significantly reduce the risk of recurrence after resectable NSCLC, and has become a new standard of postoperative adjuvant therapy for stage II-III NSCLC. Immunotherapy faces challenges such as immune resistance, heterogeneity of biomarker expression, and limitation of immune-suitable population. How to reduce the rate of recurrence and metastasis after surgery, enhance the therapeutic effect of immunotherapy, and then prolong the survival period and improve the quality of life, has become an urgent problem facing the current clinical. Based on the standards of evidence-based medicine, this study for the first time carried out a large sample, multi-center, randomized parallel controlled clinical study to obtain high-quality clinical evidence of the effectiveness and safety of electro-acupuncture and Zilongjin tablet synergic treatment, and formed a standard treatment plan of traditional Chinese medicine.

Interventions

OTHERElectroacupuncture combined with immunotherapy

Connect the electroacupuncture therapy instrument, select the density wave 2 Hz/100 Hz, the current intensity should be tolerated by the patient, leave the needle for 20 min.Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

DRUGZilongjin tablet combined with immunotherapy

Take Zilongjin tablets orally, 4 tablets each time, 3 times a day.Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

DRUGImmunotherapy

Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

Sponsors

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
Kong Fanming
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* (1) Non-tumor patients with stage Ⅱ, ⅢA, ⅢB (N2) non-small cell lung cancer diagnosed by pathology or cytology after surgery; (2) driver mutations negative patients; (3) Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was received for 1 to 4 cycles;(4)conforms to two qi syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation diagnosis of patients; (5) aged 18 to 80 years old; (6) expected lifetime \> 6 months; (7) ECOG 0 to 2 points; (8) patients willing to accept this solution treatment, adherence to the good.

Exclusion criteria

* (1) Patients with other malignant tumors in the past or at the same time within 5 years; (2) has a serious heart, liver and kidney damage, or other serious complications; (3) the R1, R2, need after resection, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy patients; (4) with mental disorders; (5) has a variety of drug allergy, allergic constitution; (6) in pregnancy or lactation women.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Disease free survival(DFS)2yearTime from random start to first recurrence or death.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
DFS3yearTime from random start to first recurrence or death.
Overall survival3,5year
EORTC QLQ-C30 Scale0,2,3,6 monthEORTC QLQ-C30 Scale
Immune function0,3 monthT lymphocyte subsets, NK cells
Lung cancer TCM syndrome score0,2,3,6 month

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactFanming Kong Director of Oncology Department, PhD
kongfanming08@163.com+ 86 22 27986525

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026