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A trial to find out if screening can pick up lung cancer at an early stage in a high risk group of people - The Lung-SEARCH study

Overview

Cancer types:

Lung cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 3

Details

This trial looked at spotting lung cancer at an early stage in people whose lungs weren’t working very well.

This included people who had a lower than normal lung function or who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ().

Cancer Research UK supported this trial.

This trial was open for people to join between 2007 and 2011. The team published these results in 2019.

Recruitment start: 24 August 2007

Recruitment end: 1 April 2011

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Professor Stephen Spiro

Supported by

Cancer Research UK

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

University College London (UCL)

Other information

This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/06/022.

Last reviewed: 22 September 2020

CRUK internal database number: 821

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