CT Scans in Screening for Lung Cancer in Current and Former Smokers

Completed

Conditions studied: Lung Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Screening tests, such as CT scanning, may help doctors find cancer cells early and plan better treatment for lung cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well a lung cancer screening program using CT scanning works in current and former smokers.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00625690

Run by

University of Nebraska

People needed

100

Starts

2005-05-19

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2023-09-26

Who can join

Age: 19 and older, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Current and former smokers with at least a 30 pack-year history of smoking
• Body weight less than 140 kg (308 pounds)
• Able to lie flat
• Able to comply with long-term follow-up
• Functional capacity and willingness to undergo diagnostic work-up of suspicious nodules and curative therapy if lung cancer is detected
• Nursing mothers allowed
• Able to come to clinic for screening

You may not qualify if…

• No cognitive impairment that would preclude providing informed consent
• No other concurrent or prior malignancy within the past five years except superficial basal cell carcinoma or nonmelanoma skin cancer
• No condition that would preclude screening, diagnosis, or surgical treatment
• Not pregnant/negative pregnancy test

Where it is running

• Eppley Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center — Omaha, Nebraska, United States

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