Clinical trial · Observational
Fast-track Diagnosis for Lung Cancer Suspects With PET-CT and EUS
A Prospective, Open, Single Center, Study of One-day Diagnostic Track for Lung Cancer Suspects From Chest X-ray Using PET-CT and Subsequent Multiple Endoscopic Investigations. (Including Bronchoscopy, EUS-FNA)
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Patients who are admitted to the outpatient pulmonology department by a general practitioner or specialist with a chest X-ray suspicious for lung cancer with an age between 18 and 80 years are suitable for participation. The X-ray and referral are studied by a chest physician (by phone or fax ). Selected patients are invited to enter the study after answering a questionnaire by phone (p. 31). The questionnaire screens patients' interest, co-morbidity and medication use. Informed consent forms, patient information forms and a time table for the diagnostic day are provided by mail or E-mail in cases where time gets short. Waiting time to enter the study will be no longer than one week. Hundred patients will be recruited by means of informed consent. Patients will be admitted at the pulmonary ward for the study day and will be accompanied by nurses. All patients will get PET-CT scanning in the morning of the study day. Depending on the location of lesions seen on PET-CT, further invasive diagnostic procedures will be planned for the afternoon. Mediastinal and adjacent structures will be analysed with EUS-FNA. Mediastinal staging will be done with bronchoscopy alone for central located tumors, peripherally located lesions will be analysed with EUS-FNA or bronchoscopy. The percentage of patients in which this diagnostic track leads to a diagnosis and tumor stage in one day will be determined. The number of tests and diagnostic procedures needed to obtain a diagnosis, including tumor stage (especially final stage NSCLC) and function tests, will be compared with a historical matched study group. This historical study group is chosen from an era before the availability of integrated PET-CT and ultrasound guided endoscopic tools and meets the same inclusion and exclusion criteria as the patients in this study. The timelines from initial chest X-ray to diagnostic day to informing the patient to start of treatment will be determined. These figures will be compared with the historical study group.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lung Cancer | Malignant Lung Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| conventional diagnosis | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| fast track diagnosis | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- A
- description
- Fast-track diagnosis
- interventionNames
- Procedure: fast track diagnosis
- Procedure: conventional diagnosis
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Number of patients that will have a definitive diagnosis and final stage NSCLC in one day
- timeFrame
- 1 day
Secondary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Number of tests and procedures that have been performed. Patient satisfaction with the one-day procedure. Sensitivity of EUS-FNA and EBUS-TBNA when immunohistochemical analysis is added to investigate false negative procedures.
- timeFrame
- 2 years
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 85 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * patients with a suspicion of lung cancer on chest X-ray * age between 18-85 years * informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * comorbidity (alcoholabuse, drugsabuse and limiting psychiatric disease) * non-compliance * previous diagnostic tests for the suspicious X-ray (endoscopy, CT)
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