The research, presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich today (8 September 2013), suggests that testing the temperature of breath could be a simple and noninvasive method to either confirm or reject the presence of lung cancer. Many research teams have b...
Emory University researcher Dana Allen blows into a device that traps specific compounds found in breath. The compounds are then examined to confirm the presence or absence of cancer. Credit: Gary Meek (Medical Xpress) -- A breath test designed to detect established lung cancer in humans showed ...
The test identifies human immune response to tumors. Non-small-cell lung cancer patients have a 40% chance of living for five years or more after diagnosis. 50% of patients die within the first year. It is the most common lung cancer. If further studies confirm its reliability, this will...
With the relatively high cost of spiral CT, the high rate of false positives leading to unnecessary biopsy or surgery, and the need for serial measurements to confirm non-neoplastic disease, addition of an economical serum test to the CT-screening protocol could improve specificity and cost ...
Your doctor might order this test to see how a disease such asCOPDorasthmaaffects your lungs. The test may show that your treatment needs to change. It can help confirm whether you have a lung disease that reduces the amount of space in your lungs. Your doctor might call this a restricti...
There was no significant difference in positivity of EarlyCDT-Lung and different lung cancer stages. These studies confirm the value of an autoantibody assay, EarlyCDT-Lung, as an aid to detecting lung cancer in patients at high risk of the disease. Cancer Prev Res; 4(7); 1126-34. O2011 ...
A test result of “Cancer Signal Detected” requires confirmatory diagnostic evaluation by medically established procedures (e.g., imaging) to confirm cancer.If cancer is not confirmed with further testing, it could mean that cancer is not present or testing was insufficient to detect cancer, ...
Armed with such a blood test, doctors might then use mammograms only after cancer has been detected, to confirm the test's results and find the location of the tumor, Cance said. The EV-CLUE chips are created using a 3-D printer, in a process that could be distributed widely...
If cancer is not confirmed with further testing, it could mean that cancer is not present or testing was insufficient to detect cancer, including due to the cancer being located in a different part of the body. False-positive (a cancer signal detected when cancer is not present) and false-...
The potential to better detect cancer using EV-bound protein biomarkers has recently been suggested for multiple cancer types20 using various methodologies, such as mass spectrometry for lung and pancreatic cancers21. Currently, the gold standard method for isolating EVs from soluble contaminants (cells...