ARISE: Assessing Lung Cancer Risk in Never-Smoking Women
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Summary
The researchers are doing this study to learn more about factors that may increase the risk of lung cancer in people who have never smoked. This information may help predict which people who have never smoked may be more likely to get lung cancer.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 40–74 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Criteria: * Female at birth * Age 40-74 years * No smoking history * Participants must be never-smokers, defined as having smoked \<100 cigarettes in their lifetime * Documentation of disease - case patients o Case patients must have pathologically confirmed primary lung adenocarcinoma. New and prevalent cases will be eligible. Case patients with a history of prior non-lung cancer will be eligible for the study unless actively being diagnosed or treated for another form of cancer at the time of enrollment. * Criteria for control participants * Control participants must have no person…