# Inova firefighter occupational cancer screening pilot

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## TL;DR

A pilot that screens firefighters, whose work is classed as carcinogenic, with whole-body scans and a multi-cancer blood test.

## Summary

Inova firefighter occupational cancer screening pilot (NCT06931561) is a randomised interventional study sponsored by Inova Health Care Services with Virginia Department of Health. Its primary outcomes are the numbers of confirmed pre-malignancies and malignancies detected with each screening tool; the registry names the blood test only as an MCD assay.

The registry record, read on 29 October 2026, gives its status as recruiting, with an estimated 800 participants, a start on 11 February 2025 and primary completion expected on 30 September 2028.

## Fields

- Kind: Trial
- Status: recruiting
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Registry id: NCT06931561
- Phase: not-applicable
- Setting: Firefighters in Virginia randomised within a screening pilot using whole-body MRI or whole-body ultrasound and a multi-cancer detection blood test
- Sponsor: Inova Health Care Services with Virginia Department of Health
- Enrolled: 800

## Sources

- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06931561: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06931561

## Connected records

- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/)
- technologies: [Liquid biopsy (ctDNA)](https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/), [Multi-cancer early detection (MCED)](https://onco.cc/technologies/mced/), [Whole-body MRI](https://onco.cc/technologies/whole-body-mri/)

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