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Budesonide in Treating Patients With Lung Nodules at High Risk of Developing Lung Cancer

Major Program
Phase 0 I II Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Program
Research Group
Lung and Upper Aerodigestive Cancer
Sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Status
Completed
NCT ID
NCT00321893
RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing, or coming back. The use of budesonide may keep lung cancer from forming in patients with lung nodules.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well inhalation budesonide works in treating patients with lung nodules who are at high risk of lung cancer.
Intervention
Budesonide, Placebo
Condition
Lung Cancer
Investigators
Giulia Veronesi, MD, Scott M. Lippman, MD, FACP

See list of participating sites