Can blood tests improve lung cancer screening in smokers with artery disease?
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Part of Cancer, Lungs & breathing clinical trials.
This study looks at whether certain blood tests can help find lung cancer early in people who have smoked for a long time and also have artery disease. The goal is to see if adding these tests to current screening methods can better identify those at highest risk.
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Who can take part
- You are between 45 and 75 years old.
- You have smoked daily for at least 10 years.
- You have a condition that narrows or blocks your arteries (like heart disease, peripheral artery disease, or a high calcium score in your heart arteries).
- If you don't have artery disease, you must have a smoking-related lung disease (like COPD or emphysema) or a history of cancer that was treated more than 5 years ago, or meet certain other smoking and age criteria.
- You have not had cancer (except certain skin or early-stage cancers) in the last 5 years.
- You do not have symptoms of lung cancer (like coughing up blood or unexplained weight loss over 7 kg in a year), or a history of lung nodules requiring follow-up.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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