Clinical Trials Search at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

This trial studies how well yoga works in supporting children with cancer and their parents during chemotherapy infusion. Pediatric cancer and its treatment is one of life’s most stressful events for children and their parents. Yoga is an ancient holistic healing science that incorporates postures, breathing, relaxation, and meditation to facilitate harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Participating in yoga exercise may improve the negative psychosocial effects in children with cancer and their parents during chemotherapy treatment.

This trial studies methods of detecting lung cancer at an earlier stage in current or former smokers with a special type of computed tomography (CT) scan and by testing genes and proteins in biospecimens (blood, urine, sputum, and tissue samples) collected at the time of bronchoscopy (examination of the airway). Analyzing these methods may provide an early detection of lung cancer in current or former smokers when it is more amenable to a cure.