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JAPANESE
国立保健医療科学院
UMIN ID: UMIN000001184

Registered date:12/06/2008

Clinical study of alpha-GalactosylCeramide-pulsed dendritic cells in patients with operable primary lung cancer.

Basic Information

Recruitment status Complete: follow-up complete
Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studiedprimary lung cancer (operable case)
Date of first enrollment2007/11/01
Target sample size20
Countries of recruitmentJapan
Study typeInterventional
Intervention(s)In patients, intra-venous injection of alpha-GalactosylCeramide pulsed DCs is performed at 1week before operation. Within 3 months after operation he is re-entried, and alpha-GalactosylCeramide pulsed DCs are performed at 1, 2, 7 and 8 weeks after the re-entry. In control group, intra-venous injection of alpha-GalactosylCeramide pulsed DCs is not performed before and after operation.

Outcome(s)

Primary OutcomeImmunological response
Secondary OutcomeSafety, Clinical response

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Age minimum20years-old
Age maximum80years-old
GenderMale and Female
Include criteria
Exclude criteria1. Patients who have been treated with surgery or chemotherapy or radiotherapy received for at least 4 weeks before enrollment. 2. Histology is large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. 3. The exclusion criteria were a positive response to HIV, hepatitis C virus, or human T-cell lymphotrophic virus antibodies; positive for hepatitis B antigen; the presence of active inflammatory disease or active autoimmune disease; a history of hepatitis; pregnancy or lactation; concurrent corticosteroid therapy; and evidence for another active malignant neoplasm. The histologic type, tumor-node-metastasis classification, and the antitumor effect of treatment were classified according to the general rules for clinical and pathologic recording of lung cancer as described by the Japan Lung Cancer Society.

Related Information

Contact

public contact
Name
Address 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan Japan
Telephone 043-222-7171
E-mail
Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Department of Thoracic Surgery
scientific contact
Name Ichiro Yoshino
Address 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan Japan
Telephone
E-mail
Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University Department of Thoracic Surgery