The early diagnosis service. Version 11 210815

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Is a targeted approach to the early diagnosis of lung cancer acceptable in a high risk Manchester population?

• IRAS ID

  165431

• Contact name

  Janet Tonge

• Contact email

  janet.tonge@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  South Manchester CCG

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  N/A, N/A

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 9 months, 26 days

• Research summary

  This study explores the question, Is a targeted approach to the early diagnosis of lung cancer acceptable in a high risk Manchester population?

  The goal is to explore views about a new early diagnosis service that aims to find lung cancer in people before symptoms arise by identifying those at highest risk and offering them a low dose computed tomography (CT) scan. This includes proposed public/patient information. The study is important as when lung cancer is diagnosed impacts on survival time.

  The study is funded by the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Partnership which is hosted by South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group. High risk in this context is, people aged 55-74 who are current/former smokers.

  Most lung cancers are caused by smoking. Stopping smoking decreases lung cancer risk but levels remain higher than for non-smokers for many years (Doll et al., 2004),so we want to find out the views of current/former smokers

  For the new service to be used, it must be acceptable to those who are invited. The research explores the views of people with similar characteristics to those the new service aims to reach. These are:
  • current/former smokers
  • 55-74 years old
  • male/female
  • people who have not had lung cancer

  Materials advertising the study will be placed with agreement into GP Practices community venues and the CCG website. Possible participants will be able to find out more from the research team (phone/email). If consent is given contact details will be taken by the researchers to organise the discussion groups and check eligibility.

  2-4 focus groups (12-48 people) will be held in health centres or community venues in Manchester by agreement. Each focus group is expected to last 1-1.5 hours. Participants will only be asked to come to one group discussion. Groups are expected to take place in Nov/Dec 2015.

• REC name

  North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/NE/0313

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Sep 2015

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion