NYU Lung Cancer Biomarker Center
NYU Langone Health
Summary
RATIONALE: Screening tests that use biomarkers may help doctors find tumor cells early and plan effective treatment for lung cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying biomarkers in screening participants for lung cancer.
Description
OBJECTIVES: * Identify and validate biomarkers for the early detection of lung cancer in individuals at low- or high-risk for smoking-related cancers. * Identify preneoplastic cellular changes and lesions in these patients. OUTLINE: Participants are stratified according to lung cancer risk status (with or without increased risk). Group 1 (screening cohort): Participants complete a questionnaire and undergo pulmonary function testing, multidetector chest CT scan, sputum induction, and phlebotomy. Group 2 (rule-out lung cancer): Participants complete the same questionnaire and undergo the sa…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 50+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Screening Cohort * At high- or low-risk for lung cancer * Smoking history ≥ 20 pack years\* * With or without workplace exposure to asbestos * NOTE: \* Participants with \< 20 pack years of smoking are eligible if 50 years of age or older * Rule-Out Lung cancer group * Referred for evaluation of suspicious nodules with 1 of the following diagnoses: * Lung cancer * Nonmalignant nodules (control group) PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: * Not pregnant * No prior malignancy except nonmelanoma skin cancer PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: * Not specified
Location
- NYU Cancer Institute at New York University Medical CenterNew York, New York