Breath test for detection of early-stage lung cancer
Science Daily, April 16, 2007
Science Daily has published a possibly new method of lung cancer detection.
Molecular messages and signals circulating in blood or contained in cells lining
the airway can identify early stage cancer, according to research reported today
at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. A
series of quietly exhaled breaths might indicate whether or not a patient is at
risk for lung cancer, according to researchers from the New York State
Department of Health. Using DNA recovered from exhaled breath, researchers can
examine the state of cells that line the lungs, and potentially detect cancer at
an early stage, when treatment may be most successful.
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