Table 1. Testing items and testing time points.
| Project | Screening period | Neoadjuvant therapy period | Pre-surgical examination | Surgery | Adjuvant therapy and consolidated treatment period | Safety follow-up | Survival follow-up |
| Visit period | D-28~D-1 | C1-C3 | Surgery will be performed within 4–6 weeks of the preoperative therapy completion | C4-C17 | |||
| D1 | D1 | ||||||
| Sign informed consent | √ | ||||||
| Demographic data collection | √ | ||||||
| Tumour diagnosis | √ | ||||||
| Past medical history | √ | ||||||
| History of previous antineoplastic therapy | √ | ||||||
| Physical examination | √ | √ | |||||
| Vital signs | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
| ECOG score | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
| Complete blood count | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Comprehensive metabolic panel | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Coagulation function | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Routine urinalysis | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Stool analysis | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Thyroid function test | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| HIV/HBV/HCV virus testing | √ | ||||||
| Pregnancy test | √ (within 7 days) | ||||||
| 12-lead ECG | √ (within 7 days) | √ | √ | √ | |||
| Echocardiography | √ | √ | |||||
| Imaging (chest) | √ | √ (within 7 days before surgery) | Assessment every four cycles | ||||
| Imaging (parts of the body other than the chest) | √ | √ | |||||
| Pathological response rate assessment | √ (Postoperative) | ||||||
| Peripheral blood sample acquisition | √ | √(3 weeks after the last dose of neoadjuvant therapy to 7 days before surgery) | √ (3–4 weeks after surgery) | Acquisition every four cycles | |||
| Adverse events | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
| Concomitant medications/concomitant therapies | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
| Time to disease progression | √ | √ | |||||
| Follow-up anti-tumour therapy | √ | √ | |||||