Clinical Trial: Risk-Based Lung Cancer Detection in COPD Patients

U.S., Oct. 1 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07848815) titled 'Risk-Based Lung Cancer Detection in COPD Patients' on Sept. 23.

Brief Summary: The goal of the interventional study is to evaluate whether risk-based stratification using the PLCOm2012 model and a machine learning (ML) model can identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are at high risk of developing lung cancer and may benefit from low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening. The study population includes adults aged 50 years and older with COPD and a history of smoking attending an outpatient clinic.

The main question it aims to answer are:

- What is the incidence of histopathologically confirmed l...