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 ...