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Trial Comparing Systemic Therapy Alone and With Local Ablative Treatment for Stage IV NSCL Cancer Patients

Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Maintenance Systemic Therapy Alone With Systemic Therapy Plus Local Ablative Treatment for Patients With Advanced Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 2 Apr 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Unfortunately, most patients are already at a very advanced stage when they are diagnosed with lung cancer, i.e. the cancer has already spread outside the lungs forming metastases. The current standard of care therapy at this advanced stage of lung cancer includes systemic anti-cancer therapy such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy to boost the body's immune response, or targeted therapy that directly hinders tumor growth. In this study, the aim is to find out whether it is better if, after a good response to the standard therapy, the remains of main tumor and the metastases are additionally treated by surgery and/or radiation.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
128 (estimated)
First submitted
22 Sept 2023
Start date
21 Dec 2023
Primary completion date
1 Nov 2027
Lead sponsor
Swiss Cancer Institute
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT06114108

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 128
  • From 21 Dec 2023 to the primary completion date, 1 Nov 2027
  • 7 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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

Prior treatment

  • Serious concomitant disorder that would compromise patient safety during LAT

Other illness

  • Metastatic locations such as malignant ascites, malignant pleural or malignant pericardial effusion, diffuse lymphangiosis of skin or lung, diffuse bone marrow metastasis, abdominal masses/abdominal organomegaly, identified by physical exam that is not measurable by reproducible imaging techniques, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis

Other

  • The presence of any one of the following exclusion criteria at screening will lead to exclusion of the participant:
  • Unresolved complications from initial systemic anticancer treatment, higher than CTCAE grade 2
  • Women who are pregnant or breast feeding
  • Patient is currently involved in a trial that either does not permit participation in other trials or would result in excessive patient burden if another trial were joined. In such cases, the co-investigators' team and the Patient Advisory Board will decide on participation on an individual basis.

Who the study is looking for

  • Patients fulfilling all of the following inclusion criteria at screening may be enrolled in the trial.
  • The inclusion criteria are irrespective from the tumor burden at the time of primary diagnosis before initiation of first line systemic therapy. Treatment of brain metastases upfront or after an induction phase of standard systemic therapy is done according to the standard practice of the treating center.
  • Adults (18 years or older)
  • Tissue confirmed, pre-treatment clinical stage IV NSCLC
  • ECOG performance status ≤ 1
  • Patients responding after 3 cycles (4th bridging cycle up until randomization is allowed) or 3 months of first line SoC systemic therapy with PR or SD in restaging imaging, and presenting with (induced) oligometastatic or oligopersistent NSCLC defined as a maximum of 5 residual extracranial, distant metastases
  • Patients may have up to 5 cranial metastases in addition to the oligoresidual extracranial metastases as long as they are amenable for radiotherapy or surgery.
  • The primary tumor and all oligopersistent metastases must be amenable for radical LAT (surgery or radiotherapy)
  • Patients of reproductive age agree to use double contraception during the study
  • Patient is able to understand trial procedures and is able/willing to adhere to trial procedures as confirmed by signature

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (7)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Kantonspital Aarau
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AarauSwitzerlandRecruiting
IOSI Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona e Valli
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BellinzonaSwitzerlandRecruiting
Kantonsspital Graubuenden
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ChurSwitzerlandRecruiting
Hôpital Fribourgeois - Hôpital Cantonal
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FribourgSwitzerlandRecruiting
Hôpitaux Universitaires Genève HUG
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GenevaSwitzerlandRecruiting
Luzerner Kantonsspital
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LucerneSwitzerlandRecruiting
Universitätsspital Zürich
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ZurichSwitzerlandRecruiting

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