5月30日至6月3日在芝加哥举行的ASCO年会上，以色列学者报告他们发明了一种全新的肺癌筛查工具，人们仅需向管子内吹气，即可评估其肺癌风险。作者说，由于肺癌患者可产生特殊的挥发性有机化合物，很容易在呼出气体中获取，使呼气测肺癌成为可能。这项纳入358名受试者的小型临床研究取得不错的进展。
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Breath Test Detects Lung Cancer: With Breathalyzer, New Study Suggests Lung Cancer Prevention
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Breath Test Detects Lung Cancer
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US News reports that the new study mixed up 358 people living in the United States and Israel. 213 of those people had lung cancer, while 143 of these people had advanced-stage cancer. The remaining 145 people did not have lung cancer. For the study to come up with a breath test detects lung cancer, doctors told the patients to blow into a balloon which happens to be attached to a very receptive gold nanoparticle sensor.
The researchers then sent the breath particles to a laboratory in Haifa, Israel called Technion Institute for them to analyze the particles in the sensor trap for volatile organic compounds. These are reportedly evidence of lung cancer.
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