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NCT03750825
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Are Smokers Switching to Vaping at Lower Risk for Cancer? (Electronic Cigarettes and Cancer Risk)

Sponsor: University of Southern California

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Summary

This project will address a growing public health concern, namely, the health risks or benefits of e-cig use relative to cigarette smoking. The investigators will use biomarkers of early effects of relevance to cancer to determine the carcinogenic potential of e-cig use relative to cigarette smoking in oral epithelium, which is a target tissue for smoking-associated cancer. The study population will consist of one group of smokers who are interested in switching to e-cig use (Grp 1), one group of smokers who do not intend to change their smoking habits (Grp 2), and one group of non-users who would like to maintain their nonsmoking non-vaping status (Grp 3); The total number of participants in this project is 150 (n = 50, each group). The investigators will use an integrative 'multi-omics' approach complemented with single-locus/gene validation analyses to detect temporal changes in the genome, epigenome, and transcriptome relevant to cancer in the oral cells of the participants as the intervention progresses.

Official title: Are Smokers Switching to Vaping at Lower Risk for Cancer?

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

22 Years - 55 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

150

Start Date

2021-12-01

Completion Date

2028-07-31

Last Updated

2025-08-06

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Interventions

DEVICE

NIDA Standard Research E-cigarette (SREC)

Smokers will switch to NIDA Standard Research E-cigarette (SREC).

Locations (1)

University of Southern California, Health Sciences Campus

Los Angeles, California, United States