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Lung Cancer Screening in High-risk Black Individuals

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorMassachusetts General Hospital
Started2023-09-06
Est. completion2028-06-30
Eligibility
Age50 Years – 80 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations2 sites

Summary

The goal of this research study is to study U.S. Black individuals with a history of smoking to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and performance of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening among this population. The name of the intervention used in this research study is: Low-dose computed tomography (radiologic scan) chest scan

Eligibility

Age: 50 Years – 80 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* Self-identified Black individual.
* Have a self-reported history of smoking. No restriction will be placed on the number of smoking pack years participants must have nor the number of years former smokers must have quit smoking.
* Aged 50-80 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals with a history of lung cancer.
* Individuals with symptoms suggestive of lung cancer. We will evaluate whether individuals have symptoms suggestive of lung cancer by administering an online screening questionnaire, which will ask whether they have experienced shortness of breath, whether they become easily winded, and whether they have had a chronic cough within the last 12 weeks that has not improved. Individuals who select that they have any one of these symptoms will be advised to follow up with their primary doctor and will not be eligible to participate in the study.
* Individuals with pneumonia or acute respiratory infection within 12 weeks prior to enrollment that was treated with antibiotics.

Conditions3

CancerLung CancerLung Carcinoma

Locations2 sites

Illinois

1 site
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, 60637
Jessica Donington, MD773-834-6121jdonington@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

Massachusetts

1 site
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts, 02215
Chi Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD617-724-1681cjyang@mgh.harvard.edu

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