Status:

COMPLETED

Genetic Epidemiology of Lung Cancer and Smoking

Lead Sponsor:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Lung Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

35-79 years

Brief Summary

We will conduct an interdisciplinary case-control/sib-pair study of lung cancer designed to explore the genetic determinants both of lung cancer and of smoking. The study includes biospecimen collecti...

Detailed Description

This is an interdisciplinary multicenter case-control study of lung cancer situated in Milan Italy, designed to explore the genetic determinants both of lung cancer and of smoking. We enrolled newly d...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA - CASE GROUP:
  • The case group will consist of 2,000 newly incident lung cancer cases, male and female, 35 to 79 years old, with verified lung cancer, collected before or after surgery and prior to chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
  • All histologic types and all stages of lung cancer will be eligible.
  • Cases will be consecutively collected in the departments of thoracic surgery, general surgery, general medicine, and oncology.
  • The pool of cases will be residents of Lombardy derived from 5 cities (Milan, Brescia, Varese, Monza, and Pavia) and the surrounding residential villages served by 14 hospitals, that encompass all five medical schools in the region.
  • Enrolled cases will have no history of other cancers, except for basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ cervical carcinoma.
  • Subjects in intensive care units, or with cardiac, hepatic, renal, or CNS failure, or with uncompensated schizophrenia, psychosis, or inability to speak, will not be enrolled.
  • All subjects will sign an informed consent.
  • INCLUSION CRITERIA - CONTROL GROUP:
  • The control group will consist of 2,000 gender-, age-, and county-matched controls with no history of cancer.
  • We will choose a population-based or hospital-based control group depending on the result of a pilot study.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    June 28 2001

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    June 26 2020

    Estimated Enrollment :

    4429 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00340340

    Start Date

    June 28 2001

    End Date

    June 26 2020

    Last Update

    June 30 2020

    Active Locations (18)

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    Ospedale Fatebenefratelli Sant'Orsola

    Brescia, Italy

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    Spedali Civili

    Brescia, Italy

    3

    Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo

    Milan, Italy

    4

    Euromedia Marketing Service

    Milan, Italy