Clinical trials: Open Burn Pit Exposure
Lung Cancer Screening, Military Service-related Environmental and Occupational Exposures
Personalizing Veterans' Lung Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) is currently recommended for high-risk individuals who are 50 to 80 years old, have smoked cigarettes for at least 20 pack-years, and currently smoke or quit…
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer Screening, Military Service-related Environmental and Occupational Exposures, Cancer Survivor, Family History of Lung Cancer
- Trial name
- MAS-EXPAND (NCT07838519)
- Testing
- Low-dose computed tomography
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,400 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Open Burn Pit Exposure
DNA Methylation Markers in Veterans Exposed to Open Burn Pits
Background: The VA and DoD estimate that 3.5 million Veterans and Service Members were exposed to open burn pits used for waste disposal during military deployments to countries such as Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq since 1990.
- Trial name
- NCT06305091
- Testing
- Health survey for physical and mental health comorbidities, epigenetic marker and heavy metals in blood and urine samples
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 330 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System