Clinical Trial: A Community Health Worker Intervention to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Uptake in Community Health Centers

U.S., Sept. 12 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07168629) titled 'A Community Health Worker Intervention to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Uptake in Community Health Centers' on Aug. 13.

Brief Summary: Lung cancer screening (LCS) can reduce lung cancer-related mortality by 20%, but only 5-10% of eligible individuals have received an initial LCS. The goal of this study is to partner with community stakeholders to jointly develop and pilot test a multi-component community health worker-delivered intervention targeting key barriers to improve LCS and tobacco treatment utilization. The proposed activities will lay the groundwork for a subsequent R01 grant, conducting a fully powered randomized clinica...