Cancer lung cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with peripheral lung cancer planned to be treated by chemotherapy who include all of the following: 1- Histologically-diagnosed, peripheral NSCLC. 2- Patients who are not candidate for surgical treatment because of poor cardiopulmonary status, inoperable advanced stage of lung cancer or refusal of surgery 3- The patients are fit for chemotherapy with adequate bone marrow reserve: ¿ White blood cell count >3500/mm3. ¿ Neutrophil count >1800/mm3. ¿ Hemoglobin >10 gm /dL. ¿ Haematocrit value >30%
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with one or more of the following will be excluded: 1. Patient is operable and planned for surgery. 2. Tumors infiltrating the main stem bronchi, trachea and/or mediastinum as detected by fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and or CT chest (central bronchogenic carcinoma). 3. Uncooperative patients. 4. Patient with uncorrectable bleeding diathesis. 5. Lung cancer other than NSCLC (small cell lung cancer, metastatic lung cancer, lymphoma, sarcoma, others ). 6. Platelet count ¿ 50,000 mm3 and/or prothrombin time ¿ 50%. 7. Serum bilirubin more than 2.5 mg/dL, ALT and AST > 3 times normal level and creatinine > 1.5 mg/dL. 8. Patient with severe pulmonary dysfunction. 9. Patient with uncompensated cardiac comorbidities. 10. Hypersensitivity to cisplatin.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| A. Clinical evaluation: It depends on recording the changes in patients¿ symptoms, performance status, and quality of life. B. Radiological evaluation will be done by: Chest X-ray and CT of the chest. C. Histopathological examination by tru cut biopsy after 6 months. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| survival | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
assistant lecturer of Chest medicine ,faculty of medicine , Mansoura university