Clinical trialNCT01004510TerminatedPhase 2Interventional

Zometa Adjuvant Treatment of Malignant Pleural Effusion Due To Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

SponsorPeter Bushunow MDEnrollment3Malignant Pleural EffusionNon Small Cell Lung Cancer

View the registry record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the addition of the bisphosphonate Zometa (zoledronic acid) used along with standard regimens of chemotherapy, will help to control the need for palliative intervention of malignant pleural effusions due to non-small cell lung cancer.

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Kevin Lightner, M.D.
Rochester General Hospital
Principal Investigator
clinicaltrials.gov ↗
Peter Bushunow, M.D.
Rochester General Hospital
Principal Investigator
clinicaltrials.gov ↗
Todd Sheppard, M.D.
Rochester General Hospital
Principal Investigator
clinicaltrials.gov ↗

A profile link is shown only when the registered name resolves to a person record with a confident, namesake-checked match; ambiguous names stay unlinked.

Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Rochester General Hospital
Rochester, New York, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Zoledronic acid →

Linked drugs open the directory filtered to KOLs working with them.clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Nov 2009
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2010
Completion: 30 Apr 2011
Last update posted: 4 Dec 2012
Registered enrollment: 3
Registry id: NCT01004510

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.