Conditions: Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Keywords: Dose-Dense Chemotherapy
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 13
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Dose-dense chemotherapy is a chemotherapy treatment plan in which drugs are given with less time between treatments than in standard chemotherapy. The two chemotherapy drugs used in this study, docetaxel and cisplatin, are approved for the treatment of lung cancer when given every 21 days. This study is exploring the response to chemotherapy when these drugs are given every 14 days. In addition, genetic tests will be performed on pre-treatment specimens to identify signatures that may predict chemotherapy sensitivity or resistance.

Detailed description:
All patients will receive induction chemotherapy with cisplatin and docetaxel. Pegfilgrastim will be administered approximately 24 hours following the end of the day 1 chemotherapy infusion. Cycles will be repeated every 2 weeks for 3 cycles. Patients deemed to be resectable will undergo surgical resection followed by postoperative thoracic radiotherapy. Patients deemed inoperable will additionally receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Response, using radiographic and/or pathologic means, will identify two cohorts; responders and nonresponders.Gene expression profiling will then be performed on pre-treatment specimens to identify signatures that predict for chemotherapy sensitivity or resistance.

The target enrollment is 45 patients.

Arms:
arm 1: Cisplatin 75mg/m2 IV days 1, 15, 29; Docetaxel 75mg/m2 IV days 1, 15, 29; and Pegfilgrastim 6mg SC day 2, 16, 30

Interventions: intervention 1: cisplatin intervention 2: Docetaxel intervention 3: Pegfilgrastim
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None intervention 3: None

Protocol document: