Tokyo, Sept. 24 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000063033) titled 'A study of specimen processing methods to enable genomic testing using malignant pleural effusion from patients with lung cancer' on Sept. 24.
Study Type:
Observational
Primary Sponsor:
Institute - Kanagawa Cancer Center
Condition:
Condition - Malignant pleural effusion from non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer
Classification by malignancy - Malignancy
Genomic information - YES
Objective:
Narrative objectives1 - To evaluate whether CD45-positive cell depletion by magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) improves the tumor cell content of FFPE cell blocks derived from malignant pleural effusion in patients with ...