Millions of patients die of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) every year. There are several methods to treat NSCLC, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bioimmuotherapy. Recently, hyperthermia therapy has played an important role in neoplasm therapy. It has showed some effect in NSCLC both in animal experiment and clinical practice, yet there is little literature about Whole-body Hyperthermia (WBH) with neoplasm. The investigators decides to develop this randomized contrasted multicenter clinical study to testify to the effect of chemotherapy combined with WBH to treat stage IIIB/IV Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
120
standard first-line chemotherapy combined with whole-body hyperthemia to treat stage Ⅲb/Ⅳ NSCLC
Xijing Hospital
Xi’an, Shanxi, China
RECRUITINGProgression-free survival (PFS)
Time frame: one year
Toxicity as assessed by NCI CTC v3.0
Time frame: one year
overall suivival
Time frame: one year
quality of life
Time frame: one year
Disease Control Rate
Time frame: one year
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