Survey and Blood Sample Collection for Patients With Lung Cancer Who Never Smoked Cigarettes

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: blood sample and questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00745160

08-104

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if collecting information and blood from a group of people who never smoked but who have lung cancer, is possible across the US. The investigators will collect information on each patient's diagnosis and treatments. If the collection is successful, blood samples will be used to try to identify new genes (which are the basic elements of heredity, passed from parents to their offspring), which may explain and predict why certain patients develop lung cancer without having smoked tobacco.

Enrollment: 115 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• histologically and/or cytologically proven diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer
• never smoker, defined as having smoked less than 100 cigarettes over one's life-time
• completed survey and inclusion form
• signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• previous history of cancer (other than lung cancer)
• living outside the United States
• patients who cannot read English (as website and questionnaires will only be written in English)
• unable to understand the protocol or to give informed consent

Trial design

115 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Never-smokers with lung cancer

Treatment:

Other: blood sample and questionnaire