Cheek Scrapings Can Detect Lung Cancer
1st Nov 2005, 23:08 GMT
The quest for a simple diagnostic test of lung cancer is beginning to pay off, researchers said here today. A scraping of cheek cells contains a "clear signal" of malignancy-associated cellular changes that indicate lung cancer, reported Bojana Turic, M.D., of Perceptronix, Inc., at CHEST 2005, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. But the sensitivity...
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