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Lead
Eli Lilly and Company
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Histologic or cytologic new diagnosis of NSCLC, Stage IIIB with a cytologically positive pleural or pericardial effusion or Stage IV.
No prior chemotherapy, including adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy, for the treatment of NSCLC.
ECOG Performance Status of 2 .
Patients must be at least 3 weeks since major surgery. Patients must be at least 1 week since surgery, such as mediastinoscopy, pleuroscopy, or thoracostomy.
Patients must have measurable disease, defined as lesions that can be accurately measured in at least 1 dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as greater than or equal to 20 mm with conventional techniques or as greater than 10 mm with spiral CT scan.
You may not be if
Any prior radiation therapy to the thoracic area.
Active and ongoing systemic infection.
Prior radiation to greater than 25% of the bone marrow.
ECOG PS other than 2
Patients with a known hypersensitivity to gemcitabine and carboplatin.
Clareo Health | A Trial of Carboplatin and Gemcitabine Versus Gemcitabine Alone in Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
