Surveillance For New Lung Primaries

Low Dose Helical Computed Tomographic (CT) Screening Followed by Anatomic Co-Registered Computed Tomography With Positron Emission Tomography (CT/PET) for Patients With Indeterminate (5-9 mm) Nodules

Status

Terminated

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00205413

Enrollment

250

Registered

2005-09-20

Start date

2002-09-30

Completion date

2006-07-31

Last updated

2015-10-02

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Conditions

Lung Cancer

Keywords

surveillance for lung cancer

Brief summary

This clinical research protocol proposes to perform low dose helical computed tomographic (CT) scanning in 250 high-risk patients (125/year for two years) in order to detect lung carcinomas when they are small and subject to effective curative therapies.

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

50 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Asymptomatic

Exclusion criteria

* 20 pack year history

Countries

United States

Outcome results