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Test May Help Doctors Detect Cancer Cells

 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:45 pm    Post subject: Test May Help Doctors Detect Cancer Cells Reply with quote
What a breakthrough if this is so...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/20/2167835.htm?section=world
Researchers develop cancer breath test

Updated Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:56pm AEDT
The test may help doctors detect cancer cells (file photo).

A new laser analyser might be able to help doctors detect cancer, asthma or other diseases by sampling a patient's breath.

A team of US researchers reported in the journal Optics Express that the device uses mirrors to bounce the laser's light back and forth until it has touched every molecule a patient exhales in a single breath.

They says this can help detect minute traces of compounds that can point to various diseases, including cancer, asthma, diabetes and kidney malfunction. cont..
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