Clinical trial NCT00745160: Survey and Blood Sample Collection for Patients With Lung Cancer Who Never Smoked Cigarettes
Official title: Survey and Blood Sample Collection for Patients With Lung Cancer Who Never Smoked Cigarettes
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Lung Cancer
Keywords: Questionaires
Lead sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2008-09-03
Enrollment: 115
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Never-smokers with lung cancer

Internet recruitment The study will be advertised through a specifically designed website linked to the MSKCC Lung Cancer webpage. The website will be designed after approval of the study. The website will be accordingly reviewed by the IRB. We plan to advertise this study by word-of mouth at scientific meetings and on patient associations' websites and/or bulletins, with permission. The website will post a description of the study and an invitation to participate.

Interested patients will be given an email or mail address and/or phone number 866-854-4652 to contact MSKCC investigators about the study.

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: To assess the feasibility of an internet-based protocol to collect clinical information and biological specimens from 2,000 never smokers with lung cancer.
timeFrame: conclusion of the study
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Basking Ridge
country: United States
facility: Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
state: New Jersey
city: Commack
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
state: New York
city: Rockville Centre
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center
state: New York
city: Sleepy Hollow
country: United States
facility: Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center@Phelps
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
name: Vincent Miller, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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