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Trial Title:
DREAM: Double Lung Transplant REgistry Aimed for Lung-limited Malignancies
NCT ID:
NCT05671887
Condition:
Lung Cancer
Bilateral Cancer
Lung Transplant
Conditions: Official terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Conditions: Keywords:
Cancer
Lung Cancer
Bilateral Cancer
Lung Transplant
Double Lung Transplant
Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma (BAC)
Lepidic
Mucinous
Study type:
Observational [Patient Registry]
Overall status:
Recruiting
Study design:
Time perspective:
Prospective
Intervention:
Intervention type:
Procedure
Intervention name:
Double Lung Transplantation
Description:
To evaluate outcomes among patients who undergo lung transplantation for treatment of a
select group of medically refractory cancers affecting the lungs alone without
extrapulmonary nodal and distant metastasis.
Arm group label:
Cohort A: Primary lung cancers
Arm group label:
Cohort B: Metastatic cancers to the lung only
Arm group label:
Cohort C: Respiratory failure with a history of cancer in the last 5 years
Other name:
Lung Transplantation
Summary:
This is a prospective observational registration trial for patients who undergo lung
transplantation for the treatment of the select groups of medically refractory cancers
affecting the lungs alone without extrapulmonary nodal and distant metastasis.
Detailed description:
Ever since human lung transplantation was first performed in a patient with advanced lung
cancer in 1963 [1], it has emerged as a well-established treatment for patients suffering
from a variety of end-stage pulmonary diseases. While lung transplant continues to be
performed for refractory lung-limited malignancies that do not have extrapulmonary
disease [2-6], given the perceived risks of tumor recurrence following transplantation
and potentially reduced survival compared to patients with chronic end-stage lung
diseases, transplants for cancer constitutes less than 0.5% of all such procedures
(www.srtr.org). The need for lung transplantation is not only confined to patients with
primary lung cancers. There are unmet needs for patients who have lung-limited metastasis
after successful treatment for primary tumors such as sarcomas or colorectal cancer
(CRC). Indeed, successful reports of lung transplantation for lung only metastasis that
are refractory to standard of care treatment has been demonstrated [3] and proposed by
international experts in highly selected patients [6]. Solid organ transplantation for
both primary and metastatic cancers has been demonstrated in liver transplantation [7,
8]. While uncommonly performed, for patients with refractory lung cancer or those with
concomitant respiratory failure, lung transplantation may be the only treatment option.
The 5-year overall survival of patients in some prior reports who underwent double lung
transplantation (DLT) for lung cancer was 39-57%[2, 9], compared to those with
non-malignant diseases 50-59%[10, 11]. Indeed, lung transplants have been steadily
increasing for cancers, as evident in the International Society of Lung Transplantation
(ISHLT) [4-6]. However, the reported cases represent heterogeneity in the surgical
technique, patient selection, and post-operative management.
This prospective observational registry aims to better understand the long-term outcomes
in patients undergoing double lung transplantation for lung-limited cancers in the
clinical programs at Northwestern Medicine and participating centers. We aim to study the
impact of a standardized approach to patient selection, tumor staging, surgical
technique, and post-operative management on the long-term survival following lung
transplantation in patients with lung-limited malignancy. Specifically, this study aims
to investigate the clinical outcomes of patients who undergo lung transplantation for
treatment of a select group of medically refractory cancers affecting the lungs without
extrapulmonary metastases. Patients will undergo transplantation if they have failed
standard of care treatments and do not have further curative treatment/trials options.
Their clinical courses including overall survival, disease-free survival, and graft
failure will be monitored as well as the molecular and genetic biomarkers to investigate
the correlation with the prognosis.
Criteria for eligibility:
Study pop:
This is a prospective observational registration trial for patients who undergo lung
transplantation using cadaveric organs for medically refractory cancers affecting the
lungs alone and without extrapulmonary metastasis after meeting the inclusion criteria of
the clinical program at Northwestern Medicine and participating centers.
Essential Clinical Criteria:
1. The tumor should be without any extrapulmonary metastasis as determined by standard
of care diagnostic and staging workup.
2. All standard of care or experimental oncological treatments known to improve
survival should have failed or deemed infeasible
3. Patients should meet the general criteria for lung transplant evaluation and listing
Sampling method:
Non-Probability Sample
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
Any patient who is undergoing double lung transplantation as part of the clinical
program, consents for this prospective observational trial, and has one of the following
conditions will be eligible.
- Common Inclusion Criteria
- Adults of Age ≦ 80
- Resistant or refractory to or without available standard of care treatment
options or experimental treatment options that are known to increase survival
outcome
- Patients without any extrapulmonary disease
- Patients with good general health with an ability to withstand physiologic
stressors and undergo psychosocial evaluation by the Stanford Integrated
Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) or other assessment tools
- Patients to meet all other criteria for lung transplantation including
insurance approval and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registration
Inclusion Criteria for Cohort A
- Histologically confirmed selected lung non-small cell lung cancer including but not
limited to:
o according to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
(IASLC)/American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS)
classification
- Lepidic dominant pattern
- Adenocarcinoma in situ
- Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma
- Non mucinous lepidic predominant invasive adenocarcinoma
o based on 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of lung tumors
including
- Invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma
- Mixed invasive mucinous and mucinous adenocarcinoma
- Colloid adenocarcinoma
- Enteric adenocarcinoma
- Minimally invasive adenocarcinoma
- Nonmucinous
- Mucinous
- Preinvasive lesions
- Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia
- Adenocarcinoma in situ
- Nonmucinous
- Mucinous
- based on the 2004 WHO classification of lung tumors including -
Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma
- Nonmucinous
- Mucinous
- Mixed nonmucinous and mucinous or indeterminate
- Without any distant metastasis confirmed by standard staging work-up
- Without brain metastasis confirmed by brain imaging
- Without unidentified primary site of cancer
Inclusion Criteria for Cohort B
- Metastatic cancers to lung alone - including but not limited to germ cell tumors,
head & neck tumors, colorectal tumors, renal cell tumors, testicular cancer
- Without any other distant metastasis confirmed by standard staging work-up
Inclusion Criteria for Cohort C
- Respiratory failure with a history of cancer in the last 5 years - including, but
not limited to interstitial lung disease (ILD), pulmonary fibrosis (idiopathic or
secondary), advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis,
emphysema, cystic fibrosis (CF), emphysema due to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency,
and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
- Without any other distant metastasis confirmed by standard staging work-up
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion criteria
- Adults unable or unwilling to consent
- Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
- Pregnant women
- Prisoners
- Vulnerable Populations
- Presence of extrapulmonary disease or mediastinal nodal disease at the time of
transplant referral
- Small Cell Cancers
- Unidentified primary site of cancer for Cohort A
- Progression of disease or confirmed distant metastases or mediastinal nodal
disease at any point during transplantation work-up
- Medical ineligibility for lung transplantation after multidisciplinary
assessment
- Not a suitable candidate according to the lung transplantation protocol for
treatment of lung confined primary or metastatic tumors
- Body mass index more than 35 kg/m2
- Evidence of co-existing malignancies for Cohort A
- Untreatable significant dysfunction of another major organ system including heart,
liver, kidney, or brain unless combined organ transplantation can be performed
- Uncorrected atherosclerotic disease with suspected or confirmed end-organ ischemia
or dysfunction and/or coronary artery disease not amenable to revascularization
- Uncorrectable bleeding diathesis
- Evidence of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
- Significant chest wall or spinal deformity expected to cause severe restriction
after transplantation
Gender:
All
Minimum age:
18 Years
Maximum age:
75 Years
Healthy volunteers:
No
Locations:
Facility:
Name:
Thoracic Surgery, Canning Thoracic Institute (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Address:
City:
Chicago
Zip:
60611
Country:
United States
Status:
Recruiting
Contact:
Last name:
Lung Transplant Thoracic Surgery, Canning Thoracic Institute (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Phone:
312-695-5864
Email:
anne.oboye@nm.org
Contact backup:
Last name:
Liam Il-Young Chung, MD MPH
Phone:
312-472-6245
Email:
ilyoung.chung@northwestern.edu
Investigator:
Last name:
Young Chae, MD MPH MBA
Email:
Principal Investigator
Investigator:
Last name:
Ankit Bharat, MD
Email:
Principal Investigator
Investigator:
Last name:
Rade Tomic, MD
Email:
Principal Investigator
Start date:
November 16, 2022
Completion date:
November 2032
Lead sponsor:
Agency:
Northwestern University
Agency class:
Other
Source:
Northwestern University
Record processing date:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05671887