TCM Constitution, Pattern Types, and Disease Factors in Primary Lung Cancer.

Trial Title: TCM Constitution, Pattern Types, and Disease Factors in Primary Lung Cancer.

NCT ID: NCT06143436

Condition: Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Body Constitution
Syndrome
Risk Factors

Study type: Observational

Overall status: Recruiting

Study design:

Time perspective: Cross-Sectional

Intervention:

Intervention type: Diagnostic Test
Intervention name: Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire
Description: Using questionnaire to collect data from new lung cancer patients.

Summary: Recently, TCM has played an important role in adjuvant therapy for lung cancer. TCM treatment is based on pattern identification, and constitution theory is also used as a tool for TCM to predict the disease progression. Although there have been many researchs related to the pattern identification and constitution of lung cancer, in view of the problems and limitations, further research on lung cancer patients in Taiwan is needed. This study aims to explore the correlation between TCM constitution, pattern identification, and other related factors in patients with primary lung cancer in Taiwan, hoping to reveal the disease characteristics of lung cancer in TCM theory. This study intends to interview subjects through attending physicians in the thoracic ward and outpatient clinic of the CMUH from November 20th, 2023 to May 19th , 2025, and the subjects will be included in this study after the researchers ask the subjects for consent. This study will collect the demographic data of the subjects (sex, age, BMI, smoking history) and disease-related clinical data (tumor stage, pathological type, gene mutation, tumor markers, other comorbidities), and the investigator will ask about the subjects' signs according to the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (CCMQ) , ask the subjects' symptoms according to the pattern identification table, obtain the data to analyze their distribution by descriptive statistics, and then analyze the correlation between them by analysis of variance and Chi-square test.

Criteria for eligibility:

Study pop:
Patients who have been diagnosed with primary lung cancer without any treatment.

Sampling method: Non-Probability Sample
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria: - Patients diagnosed with primary lung cancer. - Age greater than 18 years and less than 100 years. - After explanation, they agree to join this study and voluntarily sign the subject consent form, and can understand the content of the questionnaire. Exclusion Criteria: - Pregnant women. - Severe mental illness that affects the response to the questionnaire. - Has been treated (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, etc.). - Concomitant with other uncured primary malignancies. - Patients with other serious primary diseases (such as: liver and kidney dysfunction, hematolymphatic system diseases, etc.). - Severe respiratory diseases that are not lung cancer (e.g. primary emphysema, interstitial fibrosis, etc.) .

Gender: All

Minimum age: 18 Years

Maximum age: 100 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Locations:

Facility:
Name: China Medical University Hospital

Address:
City: Taichung City
Country: Taiwan

Status: Recruiting

Contact:
Last name: Su-Tso Yang, M.D.

Phone: 886-4-22052121

Phone ext: 15470
Email: 002794@tool.caaumed.org.tw

Start date: December 20, 2023

Completion date: May 19, 2025

Lead sponsor:
Agency: China Medical University Hospital
Agency class: Other

Source: China Medical University Hospital

Record processing date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT06143436