Fact CheckerSign in

NCT05671887Recruiting

DREAM: Double Lung Transplant REgistry Aimed for Lung-limited Malignancies

Double Lung Transplant REgistry Aimed for Lung-limited Malignancies (DREAM) - a Prospective Observational Registry Study for Patients Undergoing Lung Transplantation for Medically Refractory Cancers Confined to the Lungs

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

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.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
125 (estimated)
First submitted
19 Dec 2022
Start date
16 Nov 2022
Primary completion date
Nov 2032
Lead sponsor
Northwestern University
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT05671887

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Planned participants: 125
  • From 16 Nov 2022 to the primary completion date, Nov 2032
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Significant chest wall or spinal deformity expected to cause severe restriction after transplantation

Other illness

  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • Body mass index more than 35 kg/m2

Who the study is looking for

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Thoracic Surgery, Canning Thoracic Institute (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status
ChicagoUnited StatesRecruiting

This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.