Electroacupuncture Combined With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors as Adjuvant Therapy After Surgery for Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 2, Phase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-80
SponsorKong Fanming

About this trial

Postoperative immunoadjuvant therapy has been proven to significantly reduce the risk of recurrence after resectable NSCLC, and has become a new standard of postoperative adjuvant therapy for stage II-III NSCLC. Immunotherapy faces challenges such as immune resistance, heterogeneity of biomarker expression, and limitation of immune-suitable population. How to reduce the rate of recurrence and metastasis after surgery, enhance the therapeutic effect of immunotherapy, and then prolong the survival period and improve the quality of life, has become an urgent problem facing the current clinical. Based on the standards of evidence-based medicine, this study for the first time carried out a large sample, multi-center, randomized parallel controlled clinical study to obtain high-quality clinical evidence of the effectiveness and safety of electro-acupuncture and Zilongjin tablet synergic treatment, and formed a standard treatment plan of traditional Chinese medicine.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

(1) Non-tumor patients with stage Ⅱ, ⅢA, ⅢB (N2) non-small cell lung cancer diagnosed by pathology or cytology after surgery; (2) driver mutations negative patients; (3) Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was received for 1 to 4 cycles;(4)conforms to two qi syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation diagnosis of patients; (5) aged 18 to 80 years old; (6) expected lifetime > 6 months; (7) ECOG 0 to 2 points; (8) patients willing to accept this solution treatment, adherence to the good.

Disqualifiers

(1) Patients with other malignant tumors in the past or at the same time within 5 years; (2) has a serious heart, liver and kidney damage, or other serious complications; (3) the R1, R2, need after resection, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy patients; (4) with mental disorders; (5) has a variety of drug allergy, allergic constitution; (6) in pregnancy or lactation women.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Electroacupuncture combined with immunotherapy

    Other intervention

    Connect the electroacupuncture therapy instrument, select the density wave 2 Hz/100 Hz, the current intensity should be tolerated by the patient, leave the needle for 20 min.Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

  • Zilongjin tablet combined with immunotherapy

    Drug

    Take Zilongjin tablets orally, 4 tablets each time, 3 times a day.Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

  • Immunotherapy

    Drug

    Immunotherapy including but not limited to pabolizumab and attilizumab were repeated every 21 days for treatment weeks.The period is 1 year, and maintenance treatment can be carried out in accordance with the drug instructions and guidelines.

Treatment groups

405 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Electroacupuncture combined with immunotherapyExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Zilongjin tablet combined with immunotherapyExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group C: ImmunotherapyActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Disease free survival(DFS)

Time from random start to first recurrence or death.

Time frame
2year

Secondary outcomes

1

DFS

Time from random start to first recurrence or death.

Time frame
3year
2

Overall survival

Time frame
3,5year
3

EORTC QLQ-C30 Scale

EORTC QLQ-C30 Scale

Time frame
0,2,3,6 month
4

Immune function

T lymphocyte subsets, NK cells

Time frame
0,3 month

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Kong Fanming

Lead sponsor

First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Sponsor institution

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China

Collaborator