February 8th, 2008
That may not be unheard of according to a clinical study of a team headed by the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR):
What if we could prevent cancer recurrence for years after surgery by giving simple recall injections every two or three years?
…has shown that a vaccine against a protein found in cancer cells […]
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April 19th, 2007
As reported at the recent 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, exhaled breath might be able to indicate a patient’s risk of lung cancer.
Molecular messages and signals circulating in blood or contained in cells lining the airway can identify early stage cancer.
Using DNA recovered from exhaled breath, researchers can examine the […]
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February 27th, 2007
Even early stage lung cancer can be moderately detected by a breath test.
The test comprises a chemical colour sensor, which detects tiny changes in the unique chemical signature of the breath of people with lung cancer.
Metabolic changes in lung cancer cells cause changes in the production and processing of volatile organic compounds, which are then […]
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