Registry Study on Biological Disease Profile and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Newly Diagnosed or Existent Lung Cancer

The LuCa Biology and Outcome (BiO)-Project

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with suspected diagnosis of lung cancer, or previously diagnosed lung cancer
• Age ≥ 18 years. There is no upper age limit.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe neurological or psychiatric disorder interfering with ability to give an informed consent
• No consent for registration, storage and processing of the individual disease characteristics and course as well as information of the family physician about study participation
• No consent for biobanking of patient's biological specimens and performance of analyses on stored material.

All patients with newly diagnosed or existent lung cancer of all LuCa BiO centers in Germany are intended to be registered with in the LuCa BiO Registry.