WTC Chest CT Imaging Archive

Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pulmonary Diseases in WTC Workers: Symptoms, Function, and Chest CT Correlates

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03295279
• Other study ID #: GCO 12-0751
• Secondary ID: U01OH010401U01OH
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: September 1, 2012
• Est. completion date: August 2026

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Dr. Rafael E de la Hoz and colleagues have performed standardized and computer-assisted readings of all chest CT scans received by WTC workers and volunteers at the Mount Sinai Medical Center between 2003 and 2016. The clinical team sought to assess all findings suggestive of airway, interstitial, and neoplastic disease in a systematic way, and correlate those findings with clinical, functional, and exposure indicators. The study team's research will also involve analyses of longitudinal imaging and functional trends, and characterization of the WTC related lower airway diseases and their risk factors, with a focus on obesity-related imaging markers. The study team also plans to characterize the transitions into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among these workers.

Description:

The goal of this proposal is to characterize WTC-related lower airway disorders, and use novel imaging approaches to the investigation of obesity, one of their most important risk factors for poor clinical outcome and chronicity. To that end, the clinical team will utilize the WTC Pulmonary Evaluation Unit Chest CT Imaging Archive, an already established large imaging database, linked to extensive related databases that include disease symptoms, both pre-WTC and WTC-related occupational exposures, detailed pulmonary function and longitudinal spirometry measurements, visual imaging classification and grading, and quantitative computer assisted method (QCAM) measurements of airway, pulmonary parenchymal, pleural, and cardiovascular abnormalities. During the course of the proposed research project, the clinical team will continue to enrich most sources of data with periodic updates, in order to accrue information on the trajectories of the different clinical, functional, and imaging abnormalities observed in this population, and investigate the role of key adverse risk factors directly, and in collaboration with other investigators. In a related project, the research team will focus on COPD, classifying its severity, investigating its diagnostic stability, progression, and transitions, characterize structural abnormalities as assessed by chest CT imaging, and examine the interaction of WTC-related exposure levels with tobacco smoking on increasing the risk of for the disease.

Grant U01 OH010401 was renewed to 6/30/2026. Renewal of grant U01 OH011697 is pending funding decision.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 1722
• Est. completion date: August 2026
• Est. primary completion date: August 2026
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All subjects will be participants in the screening/monitoring (SMP) and treatment program (TP) sides of the WTC Health Plan Clinical Center Excellence at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the major site, by far of the NY/NJ consortium of this program.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Special vulnerable populations, such as fetuses, neonates, pregnant women, children, prisoners, institutionalized individuals, will not be involved in this research study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Airway Disease
• Interstitial Lung Disease
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Diseases
• Lung Diseases, Interstitial
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	New York	New York

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Brigham and Women's Hospital, National Jewish Health, University of New Mexico, University of Pittsburgh

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (17)

Brite J, Friedman S, de la Hoz RE, Reibman J, Cone J. Mental health, long-term medication adherence, and the control of asthma symptoms among persons exposed to the WTC 9/11 disaster. J Asthma. 2020 Nov;57(11):1253-1262. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2019.1672722. Epub 2019 Oct 10. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Christie J, Teamer JA, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Crane M, Levin SM, Herbert R. Reflux symptoms and disorders and pulmonary disease in former World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers and volunteers. J Occup Environ Med. 2008 Dec;50(12):1351-4. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181845f9b. Erratum In: J Occup Environ Med. 2009 Apr;51(4):509. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Hill S, Chasan R, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Wilk-Rivard E, Herbert R. Health care and social issues of immigrant rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center site. J Occup Environ Med. 2008 Dec;50(12):1329-34. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818ff6fd. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Miller GE, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Bronchodilator Response, and Incident Asthma in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2016 Dec 1;194(11):1383-1391. doi: 10.11 — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Reeves AP, San Jose Estepar R, Liu X, Doucette JT, Celedon JC, Nolan A. Increased pulmonary artery diameter is associated with reduced FEV1 in former World Trade Center workers. Clin Respir J. 2019 Oct;13(10):614-623. doi: 10.1111/cr — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Liu X, Celedon JC, Doucette JT, Jeon Y, Reeves AP, San Jose Estepar R. Association of Obesity with Quantitative Chest CT Measured Airway Wall Thickness in WTC Workers with Lower Airway Disease. Lung. 2019 Aug;197(4):517-522. doi: 10.1007/s00 — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Liu X, Doucette JT, Reeves AP, Bienenfeld LA, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC, Lynch DA, San Jose Estepar R. Increased Airway Wall Thickness is Associated with Adverse Longitudinal First-Second Forced Expiratory Volume Trajectories of Former World — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Shapiro M, Nolan A, Celedon JC, Szeinuk J, Lucchini RG. Association of low FVC spirometric pattern with WTC occupational exposures. Respir Med. 2020 Aug-Sep;170:106058. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106058. Epub 2020 Jun 7. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Shohet MR, Chasan R, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Levin SM, Herbert R. Occupational toxicant inhalation injury: the World Trade Center (WTC) experience. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2008 Feb;81(4):479-85. doi: 10.1007/s00420-007-0240-x. Epub 2007 Sep 5. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Weber J, Xu D, Doucette JT, Liu X, Carson DA, Celedon JC. Chest CT scan findings in World Trade Center workers. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2019;74(5):263-270. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2018.1452712. Epub 2018 May 9. Erratum In: Arch Environ Occu — View Citation

de la Hoz RE, Weissman DN. Consideration of Occupational and Environmental Lung Carcinogen Exposures for Lung Cancer Screening Using Low-Dose Chest CT. Chest. 2018 Oct;154(4):996-997. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.07.023. No abstract available. — View Citation

de la Hoz RE. Occupational lower airway disease in relation to World Trade Center inhalation exposure. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Apr;11(2):97-102. doi: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e3283449063. — View Citation

Haghighi A, Cone JE, Li J, de la Hoz RE. Asthma-COPD overlap in World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees, 2015-2016. J Asthma. 2021 Nov;58(11):1415-1423. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1817935. Epub 2020 Sep 15. — View Citation

Mendelson DS, Roggeveen M, Levin SM, Herbert R, de la Hoz RE. Air trapping detected on end-expiratory high-resolution computed tomography in symptomatic World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers. J Occup Environ Med. 2007 Aug;49(8):840-5. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3180d09e87. — View Citation

Napier CO, Mbadugha O, Bienenfeld LA, Doucette JT, Lucchini R, Luna-Sanchez S, de la Hoz RE. Obesity and weight gain among former World Trade Center workers and volunteers. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2017 Mar 4;72(2):106-110. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2016.11 — View Citation

Sigel KM, Xu D, Weber J, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Prevalence of Pulmonary Nodules Detected by Computed Tomography in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Jan;17(1):125-128. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201907-5 — View Citation

Weber J, Reeves AP, Doucette JT, Jeon Y, Sood A, San Jose Estepar R, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Quantitative CT Evidence of Airway Inflammation in WTC Workers and Volunteers with Low FVC Spirometric Pattern. Lung. 2020 Jun;198(3):555-563. doi: 10.1007/s004 — View Citation

* Note: There are 17 references in all — Click here to view all references

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accelerated longitudinal FEV1 decline	The clinical team selects spirometries of acceptable quality, and subjects with at least 3 spirometries spanning at least 5 years, to calculate FEV1 slope, which can then be modeled quantitatively. For categorical analyses, the clinical team defines rapid FEV1 decliners and contrast them to normal-and-stable FEV1 subjects, defined as those having an FEV1 above the lower limit of normal at baseline, no bronchodilator response, and FEV1 not changing by more than 25 ml/year on average in either direction.	5 years
Secondary	Number of physician diagnosis of incident asthma	Physician diagnosis of asthma with onset after WTC occupational exposures.	5 years

External Links

•   CDC/NIOSH Project Profile
•   CDC/NIOSH Project Profile
•   CDC/NIOSH Project Profile
•   PrincipaI investigator's WTC-related bibliography
•   Principal investigator's academic web page
•   Principal investigator's ORCID record