RATIONALE: Evaluating specific proteins in the blood may be an effective and noninvasive procedure to help doctors determine if a patient has early non-small cell lung cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying proteomic profiling to see how well it works in diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer in patients who are undergoing resection for suspicious (abnormal) stage I lung lesions.
OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine, prospectively, whether serum proteomic profiling can predict the presence of primary non-small cell lung cancer in patients with clinically suspicious stage I lung lesions who are undergoing lung resection. Secondary * Correlate the serum proteomic profile with pathologic nodal status and histopathologic features of primary lung cancer in these patients. * Correlate the initial and follow-up serum proteomic profile with overall and cancer-specific survival of these patients. * Correlate changes in the proteomic profile (preoperative to postoperative) with overall and cancer-specific survival of these patients. Tertiary * Determine whether novel molecular strategies can predict the presence of lung cancer and/or the biologic behavior of an individual cancer in these patients.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,000
Determine whether the serum proteomic profile can predict the presence of primary lung cancer in patients with suspicious lung lesions
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Survival
Time frame: Up to 5 years
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