Recruiting

Text Messaging

Sponsor:

University of Rochester

Code:

NCT07227480

Conditions

Lung Cancer Screening

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 50 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Text messaging program

Educational material

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of text messaging to promote lung cancer screening.

Conditions

Lung Cancer Screening

Study ID

NCT07227480

Start date

Feb 17, 2026

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Aug, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 50 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 50 to 80 years old
  • have not completed their annual screening for lung cancer
  • have a 20 pack-year smoking history
  • currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years
  • speak English and/or Spanish
  • have a functioning cellphone number with unlimited text messaging capacity
  • be willing to complete a baseline and a follow-up (at Month 3) survey

Exclusion Criteria:

  • being up-to-date on their annual lung cancer screening

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Screening

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: UR Screened

A text messaging program designed to promote lung cancer screening

active comparator: Control group

A mailed educational material along with a flyer for the lung cancer screening program

Interventions

Text messaging program

A text messaging program designed to promote lung cancer screening

Educational material

A mailed educational material along with a flyer for the lung cancer screening program

Primary outcome measure

  • Percent of Participants Who Undergo Lung Cancer Screening [ Time Frame: Month 3 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Francisco Cartujano, MD

(585) 273-1646francisco_cartujano@urmc.rochester.edu

Locations

University of Rochester Medical Center

Recruiting

Rochester, New York, United States, 14642

Contacts

Francisco Cartujano, MD

585-353-0035francisco_cartujano@urmc.rochester.edu

Principal Investigator:

Francisco Cartujano, MD

More Information

Sponsor

University of Rochester

Last update posted

Feb 19, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Keywords

  • Lung Cancer Screening

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Rochester on 2026-02-19.