NCT06535451Recruiting
Lung Cancer Screening Program in Mexico
Lung Cancer Early Detection With Low-dose Computed Tomography in High-risk Individuals: Experience in Mexico
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This prospective study aims to detect early-stage lung cancer using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in Mexicans aged 50 or older who are current or former heavy smokers, non-smokers exposed to significant wood smoke, or diagnosed with COPD. Annual LDCT, spirometry, and serum biomarker tests will be conducted over 3 years, and a follow-up lasting up to 10 years.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 1000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 30 Jul 2024
- Start date
- 24 Mar 2022
- Primary completion date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico
- Diseases
- Lung cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06535451
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 1000
- From 24 Mar 2022 to the primary completion date, 24 Mar 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- History of any type of cancer within the last five years, except non-melanoma skin cancer.
- Symptoms consistent with some malignant neoplasm.
- People with a poor physical-emotional condition that reduces their life expectancy or does not ensure adherence to the study.
- Elimination Criteria
Other
- Subjects who cannot be examined by tomography due to physical limitations such as weight.
- Withdrawal of informed consent
Who the study is looking for
- Eligible participants over fifty years old and one of the next criteria:
- Current smokers (\>20 pack-years)
- Former smokers (\>20 pack-years) who have quit within the past 15 years,
- Non-smokers exposed to wood smoke more than 100 hours/year
- Patients diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia (INCan) Mexico Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mexico City | Mexico | Recruiting |
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