Survey and Blood Sample Collection for Patients With Lung Cancer Who Never Smoked Cigarettes

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center115 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

115

Conditions

Lung Cancer

Interventions

blood sample and questionnaireOTHER

After giving informed consent, all patients will be asked to complete questionnaire and will be asked to provide a blood sample for DNA analysis. The questionnaire will consist of a detailed smoking questionnaire, based on the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Questionnaire.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (5)

Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk

Commack, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center

Rockville Centre, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To assess the feasibility of an internet-based protocol to collect clinical information and biological specimens from 2,000 never smokers with lung cancer.

Time frame: conclusion of the study

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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