New sensor to detect lung cancer from exhaled breath

Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

Scientists are developing biosensors capable of detecting the presence of tumor markers of lung cancer in exhaled breath. This is possible because of the changes produced within the organism of an ill person, changes reflected in the exhaled breath of the patient and which enable determining the presence of this type of marker during the initial stages of the disease.

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