New test may predict lung cancer treatment success
NCT ID NCT04589013
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether a combination of 6 markers from tumor tissue could predict how well patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer respond to first-line treatment with pembrolizumab (immunotherapy) plus chemotherapy. Researchers analyzed tissue samples from 106 patients before treatment and tracked disease progression or death over one year. The goal was to see if this multiparametric test outperforms the standard PD-L1 test alone in predicting outcomes.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this test could help doctors identify which lung cancer patients are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy, avoiding ineffective treatments.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study that only looked at predicting outcomes, not changing treatment. The test may not be accurate enough for routine use and needs further validation.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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106 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2020
- Finished
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Sep 2023
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients meeting the inclusion criteria will be selected in each of the centers (Lille CHU, Lille Centre Oscar Lambret, Valenciennes Clinique Teissier, Roubaix CH) by the onco-pneumologists and included in the study, after collecting the consent, at the start of treatment with pembrolizumab + chemotherapy in first line.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years at time of diagnosis * Affiliation to a social insurance * Obtaining the patient's non opposition * Patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma, confirmed by anatomopathological, metastatic or locally advanced unresectable, not eligible for local curative treatment * Cellular or tissue FFPE available * Indication of treatment with pembrolizumab + first line chemotherapy in multidisciplinary consultation meeting * No mutation of the EGFR gene, no rearrangement of ALK and ROS, * At least one measurable tumor according to RECIST criteria Exclusion Criteria: * Tissue or cellular FFPE not available * Systemic anti-neoplastic or immunotherapy previously received except neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment completed 6 months or more
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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CH Victor Provot
Roubaix, France
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Clcc Oscar Lambret Lille
Lille, 59037, France
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Clinique Teissier
Valenciennes, France
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Hop Calmette Chu Lille
Lille, 59037, France
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