Scan screening for lung cancer in high-risk people in Kuwait
Offers low-dose CT lung scans to high-risk adults aged 50 to 80.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Feasibility and Uptake of Low-Dose CT Lung Cancer Screening in Kuwait
Key facts
- Where
- Kuwait City, KuwaitSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 50 and 80 years old?
Source: NCT07766538, who can take part
Where in Kuwait
- Lung Cancer Screening Clinic, Chest Diseases HospitalKuwait City, KuwaitTaking people
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?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Sulaiman Khadadah
- Trial code
- NCT07766538
- Record updated
- 3 November 2026
- Original description
Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in Kuwait, where most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage and there is no national screening program. This prospective pilot feasibility study offers low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening to high-risk individuals aged 50-80 years (about 590 participants, so that about 500 complete a baseline scan), recruited by physicians at Ministry of Health polyclinics and hospital chest clinics and screened at the Chest Diseases Hospital. The primary objective is to assess the uptake of, and barriers to, LDCT lung cancer screening in Kuwait and to establish a framework for a national screening program. Participants undergo eligibility assessment (smoking history of at least 20 pack-years, totalled across all smoked tobacco products using pre-specified equivalency conversions for shisha/waterpipe, cigar, pipe, and roll-your-own tobacco), baseline assessment, and are offered three LDCT screening rounds (a baseline scan and two annual rounds) with Lung-RADS-based management and follow-up. Scans are read by radiologists without artificial intelligence (AI); at the end of the study, AI software is run once on the archived scans in a separate reader study. Findings will inform national lung cancer screening guidelines for Kuwait.Read full original descriptionShow less
ALIA Kuwait: A Prospective Pilot Feasibility Study of Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer in High-Risk Individuals in Kuwait
Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in Kuwait, where most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage and there is no national screening program. This prospective pilot feasibility study offers low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening to high-risk individuals aged 50-80 years (about 590 participants, so that about 500 complete a baseline scan), recruited by physicians at Ministry of Health polyclinics and hospital chest clinics and screened at the Chest Diseases Hospital. The primary objective is to assess the uptake of, and barriers to, LDCT lung cancer screening in Kuwait and to establish a framework for a national screening program. Participants undergo eligibility assessment (smoking history of at least 20 pack-years, totalled across all smoked tobacco products using pre-specified equivalency conversions for shisha/waterpipe, cigar, pipe, and roll-your-own tobacco), baseline assessment, and are offered three LDCT screening rounds (a baseline scan and two annual rounds) with Lung-RADS-based management and follow-up. Scans are read by radiologists without artificial intelligence (AI); at the end of the study, AI software is run once on the archived scans in a separate reader study. Findings will inform national lung cancer screening guidelines for Kuwait.
Inclusion: Age 50 to 80 years; Smoking history of at least 20 pack-years, totalled across all smoked tobacco products (cigarettes, shisha/waterpipe, cigars, pipe and roll-your-own tobacco) using pre-specified equivalency conventions (1 shisha head-year = 1 pack-year; 1 cigar = 4 cigarettes; 1 pipe bowl = 2.5 cigarettes; roll-your-own tobacco 1 g = 1 cigarette). Electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco and smokeless products do not count. Current and former smokers are eligible regardless of time since quitting; Able to provide informed consent.
Exclusion: Previous diagnosis of lung cancer or any other cancer; A major comorbidity under active management (for example end-stage heart, lung or liver disease); people whose condition is under routine follow-up, such as COPD on inhaled treatment, bronchiectasis or interstitial lung disease, remain eligible; Symptoms suggestive of lung cancer (persistent or worsening cough, haemoptysis, or unexplained weight loss of more than 15 lb (about 7 kg) in the past 3-12 months); symptomatic people are referred the same day on the normal diagnostic pathway; Currently under surveillance for pulmonary nodules; Unable to lie flat with arms raised above the head for CT scanning; Chest CT for any reason in the past 12 months; Non-Kuwaiti residents who have lived in Kuwait for less than 2 years.