Lung cancer helps detect simple breathing test

Inexpensive and very simple to analyze breath It helps detect early signs of lung cancer, which is considered one of the most deadly tumor diseases. The analysis developed by scientists from the University of Louisville.

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American researchers have discovered a method of analysis breathing, which has a high degree of accuracy (95%) allows to distinguish early signs Lung Cancer . Developers offer in his test the sensitivity of positron emission tomography (PET), but increased in twice specificity. Scan allows you to take pictures of the Interior bodies in three dimensions, which show how much the cancer has spread lung, and how it responds to treatment.

The new test makes it possible to speed up the Cancer treatment light   those stages when there is a high hope recovery. Statistically, only 14% of patients with this type of tumors can expect to live more than 10 years from the date of diagnosis, ie to win disease. The chances of such patients grow sharply when lung cancer   found on the first or second stage, but it is rare, because the disease to a point flows with almost no symptoms.

According to the author of a new technique of Professor Michael Busamry, breath analysis is not intended to replace a conventional scanning as a diagnostic tool, but it can become a very valuable additional method cancer detection, if the scans will be positive. The test looks for breathing Human specific substance called carbonyl components which are markers of cancer. (READ MORE)

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