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Standard Medical Care or Urgent Chest X-ray in Diagnosing Lung Cancer in Smokers With Chest Symptoms Who Are Older Than 60 Years

NCT01344005 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 386

Last updated 2013-08-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as an urgent chest x-ray, may help in planning cancer treatment. It is not yet known whether standard medical care is more effective than an urgent x-ray in diagnosing lung cancer in smokers with chest symptoms who are older than 60 years.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying standard medical care to see how well it works compared with an urgent chest x-ray in diagnosing lung cancer in smokers with chest symptoms who are older than 60 years.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

caregiver-related intervention or procedure

OTHER

questionnaire administration

PROCEDURE

quality-of-life assessment

PROCEDURE

radiography

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wales Cancer Trials Unit

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard Neal, MD · North Wales Clinical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-06-30

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