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Breathalyzer test detects lung cancer: Study

by Barry ORegan | September 1, 2009 at 04:53 am

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Barry Artiste Op.Ed

Israel seems to be first out the gate with yet another medical marvel, that if is a dead on winner may mean a Nobel Prize for it's researchers.

Certainly nice to hear good news for a change coming out of Israel, when media are constantly slamming the country and its peoples over every little thing.

PARIS - Scientists in Israel have devised a portable breath tester that detects lung cancer with 86 percent accuracy, according to a study released Sunday.

The device could provide an early warning system that flags the disease before tumours become visible in X-rays, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

"Our results show great promise for fast, easy and cost-effective diagnosis and screening of lung cancer," they said.

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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 05:04 on September 1st, 2009

Indeed good news. Perhaps this is finally the breakthrough needed, to permit early intervention.

hussain

at 12:51 on September 1st, 2009

Happy news indeed.

AJSmooth

at 13:09 on September 1st, 2009

"media are constantly slamming the country and its peoples over every little thing."

I don't think so. It seems that its the human rights groups doing the slamming and the media is just reporting on it.

Anyway, good news for a change indeed.

Barry ORegan

at 15:00 on September 1st, 2009

Thanks everyone, I tried to comment to each person individually, all 56 people from my various stories today, but the spam filter must be wonky as it is saying I am spamming my thank yous! Go figure. Oh Examiner, dont suppose you can send someone to fix this please. And what this The Examiner/NP computer is preventing me from sending Thank yous unless "I must wait ten seconds before thanking the next person????