Cautious welcome for lung cancer ‘breath test’
February 28th, 2007
News of a prototype breath test that could one day be used to detect lung cancer when the disease is at its most treatable has been cautiously welcomed by Cancer Research UK.
The device, which is inexpensive to produce and is around the size of a coin, is not yet reliable enough for clinical use, however, achieving a 75 per cent accuracy rate in trials.