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Lung Cancer Screening in High-risk Black Individuals

Massachusetts General Hospital · with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) · NCT05898594

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 50–80 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
900
US sites recruiting
2
Study start
September 6, 2023
Record last updated
February 23, 2026

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What the study is about

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

Being studied: Low-dose Computed Tomography

Conditions: Lung Cancer; Lung Carcinoma

Eligibility criteria

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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.

Recruiting US locations

  • University of Chicago

    Chicago, IL 60637

    Site contact: Jessica Donington, MD · 773-834-6121 · jdonington@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

  • Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

    Boston, MA 02215

    Site contact: Chi Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD · 617-724-1681 · cjyang@mgh.harvard.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Chi Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD · 617-724-1681 · cjyang@mgh.harvard.edu
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