Studies how patients with suspected lung cancer make decisions before surgery
Looks at how adults with lung spots suspected to be cancer make choices before surgery.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Sichuan Cancer Hospital and Research Institute
- Where
- Chengdu, ChinaSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Preoperative Decision-Making in Patients With Pulmonary Nodules Suspected of Lung Cancer
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 200 people, planned
- Started
- May 2026
- Expected to end
- 31 Jul 2027
- Type of study
- Observational
- Treatments tested
- Questionnaire-Based Decision-Making Assessment
- Record updated
- 18 May 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with a lung nodule that doctors strongly suspect is cancer and who must choose between management options before surgery. It only asks them to fill in questionnaires.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Lung nodule highly suspected to be cancer, with no confirmed lung cancer diagnosis yet
Main reasons for not taking part
- No real choice about how to manage the lung nodule
- Severe cognitive problems or severe psychiatric disease that would affect filling in the questionnaires
- Cannot communicate well with the study staff
- Declines to take part or cannot give written informed consent
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age 18 years or older
- Adult patients with pulmonary nodules that are highly suspected of malignancy based on clinical and radiological assessment
- No definite pathological diagnosis of lung cancer before enrollment
- Patients who are facing preoperative clinical decision-making with more than one reasonable management option, such as surgery, additional diagnostic evaluation, or follow-up
- Able to understand the study procedures and complete the study questionnaires
- Able and willing to provide written informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Patients with severe cognitive impairment or a history of severe psychiatric disease that would interfere with valid questionnaire completion
- Patients without a real clinical decision-making choice regarding the management of the pulmonary nodule
- Patients who are unable to communicate effectively with the study staff
- Patients who decline to participate or are unable to provide written informed consent
Where in China
- Sichuan Cancer Hospital and Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu, ChinaContact: Xing Wei, MDNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Patients with pulmonary nodules that are highly suspected to be lung cancer often need to make important treatment decisions before a definite pathological diagnosis is available. These decisions may include whether to undergo surgery, whether to continue follow-up, whether to have further diagnostic tests, and how to understand the potential benefits and risks of different management options.
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This prospective observational study aims to describe the preoperative decision-making status of adult patients with pulmonary nodules suspected of lung cancer. The study will assess patients' decision self-efficacy, decisional conflict, shared decision-making experience, and decision regret using standardized questionnaires. It will also explore factors associated with better or worse decision quality, such as demographic characteristics, clinical information, health literacy, doctor-patient communication, family involvement, and emotional status.
No treatment or intervention will be assigned by the study. Participants will receive routine clinical care, and study data will be collected mainly through questionnaires before surgery or during the preoperative period. The findings may help clinicians identify patients who need additional decision support and improve communication during preoperative decision-making for suspected lung cancer.
The group in the trial
- Patients With Pulmonary Nodules Suspected of Lung Cancer
Adult patients with pulmonary nodules highly suspected of lung cancer who are facing preoperative clinical decision-making before pathological confirmation. Participants will receive routine clinical care. No intervention, treatment assignment, or diagnostic procedure will be assigned by the study. Study data will be collected using structured questionnaires to assess decision self-efficacy, decisional conflict, shared decision-making experience, decision regret, and related clinical and demographic factors.
Treatment: Questionnaire-Based Decision-Making Assessment
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Preoperative Decision-Making Characteristics and Associated Mechanisms in Patients With Pulmonary Nodules Suspected of Lung Cancer
- Plain-language title
- Studies how patients with suspected lung cancer make decisions before surgeryGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 18 May 2026