Electronic nose breath analysis achieved 80-92% accuracy for detecting lung cancer in patients with suspicious findings. Detection accuracy remained consistent across tumor characteristics, disease ...

Every year, approximately 2 billion chest X-rays are performed around the world. They are affordable, quick, and often used in frontline healthcare to efficiently survey for abnormalities such as ...

Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) have now reported on a method ...

A Chinese research team has developed the world's first blood-based diagnostic kit that can tell whether lung nodules are benign or cancerous, including very small nodules that are often difficult to ...

In a recent opinion piece published in the journal Trends in Cancer, researchers examined the rising global burden of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking. This phenomenon requires its own ...