Lung Cancer Location: a Repository

Indiana University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00578084

0604-76

IRB # 0604-76

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this repository is to prospectively examine subjects with known or suspected lung cancer to determine the extent of mediastinal lymph node involvement with respect to primary lung cancer location. The data collected in this repository may be used to influence our current standard of care and streamline indications for EUS.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects undergoing EUS evaluation of a mediastinal mass, or suspected/known lung cancer
• Subjects with a prior history of lung cancer
• Subjects referred to thoracic surgery for evaluation of a suspected/known lung cancer

Exclusion criteria

• Altered mental status that would prohibit the giving and understanding of informed consent
• Dementia
• Psychiatric illness that would preclude adequate compliance with communication for this protocol
• Prisoners

Trial design

200 participants in 4 patient groups

surgery

Description:

those subjects who went to surgery to treat their lung cancer

no surgery

Description:

those subjects who did not go to surgery for their lung cancer

NSCLC

Description:

subjects with NSCLC

Small cell lung cancer

Description:

those with small cell lung cancer