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Breath test to detect lung cancer
UK Press via Google News ^
| August 30, 2009
Posted on 08/31/2009 10:10:29 AM PDT by Schnucki
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Learned about this on Slashdot.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:10:29 AM PDT
by
Schnucki
To: Schnucki
Cool. But why not just sniff for tobacco-breath?
To: Schnucki
The natural spin off from this technology will be a colon cancer detector that you fart into.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:13:05 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Hahaha!
Seriously, I wonder if part of the smell is tobacco residue.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:14:19 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Proud Sarah-Bot.)
To: Schnucki
This a UK discovery? If so, look for it to be heralded soon as the success of socialized medicine!
To: Schnucki
I think I’ve read that specially trained dogs can do the same thing.
To: Joe 6-pack
Maybe not as silly as it sounds. I bet people would prefer that over the annoyance of a conventional colonoscopy. Instead of having to purge with a laxative, you’d just eat some beans the day before the test.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:16:55 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Proud Sarah-Bot.)
To: Personal Responsibility
Actually, Israel. British press.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:17:33 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Proud Sarah-Bot.)
To: Schnucki
"From the results, the researchers identified 42 "volatile organic compounds" (VOCs) present in the breath of 83% of cancer patients but fewer than 83% of healthy volunteers."
Does that sentence tell us anything? The way it's worded, the VOCs could be present in 82.999% of healthy volunteers. One is left to assume that the difference between the healthy and unhealthy groups is much larger. What is the actual percentage in healthy volunteers?
If a quick, cheap, and easy test for lung cancer is developed; that would be a great thing. Great enough that it deserves a decent report, by someone who possesses basic numeracy skills.
To: Schnucki
I’ve read about Golden Retrievers being used to detect cancer.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:26:23 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one left scratching my head by that sentence.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:29:42 AM PDT
by
Gabz
To: Schnucki
“They believe the technology could lead to cheap, portable breath-test devices with the potential to save large numbers of lives by spotting cancer early.”....
O.K......So it’s spotted early. NOW you get to wait in line for some government official to decide if you’re life is valuable enough to save!.....
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Surely a much smaller number went before the second percent sign.
To: Joe 6-pack
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Israel. I-S-R-A-E-L. They don’t have that problem there. This is a British newspaper not a British medical journal!
To: Personal Responsibility
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:44:25 AM PDT
by
fred2008
To: HiTech RedNeck
I’m assuming the technology would be available here....
To: stuartcr
Ive read about Golden Retrievers being used to detect cancer.So look out if they sniff your crotch.
To: HiTech RedNeck
That's what we're left to assume. But what was that number? Why not just report it, instead of using an equal amount of space to be completely vague?
To: Schnucki
Good Luck getting into a UK hospital if you test Positive, the folks will be PRIORITIZED. If someone of a lower Age tests positive, they will Bump you back.
This is what Obama/Kennedy Care will do for you; taking the Air out of Care as it did Mary Jo K.
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posted on
08/31/2009 10:48:45 AM PDT
by
sr4402
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