The study, conducted by researchers at the Hospital Schillerhoehe Germany, is the first to discover that sniffer dogs can reliably detect lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women throughout Europe with over 340 000 deaths annually. It is also the most common cause of death worldwide cancer.
The disease is strongly associated with symptoms and early detection is often by chance. Current screening methods are unreliable and scientists worked on the use of exhaled breath samples of patients for future trials.
This method is based on the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which has been linked to the presence of cancer. Although many different techniques have been developed applications, this method is still difficult to apply in a clinical setting, because patients do not smoke or eat before the sample analysis can be time consuming and is also a high risk of failure. Because of these reasons, lung cancer non-specific VOC content not yet been identified.
This new study aimed to assess whether the drug dogs to detect VOCs in the breath of patients. The researchers worked in 220 volunteers, including patients with lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and healthy volunteers. They used dogs, which had been specially trained.
The researchers conducted a series of tests to see if the dogs were able to reliably identify lung cancer compared to healthy volunteers, volunteers with COPD and the results are still in the presence of snuff.
Dogs successfully identified 71 samples of 100 lung cancer can They also correctly identified 372 samples that do not have lung cancer out of 400 possible
The dogs could detect lung cancer, regardless of COPD and tobacco smoke. These results confirm the presence of a stable marker of lung cancer, regardless of COPD and also detected in the presence of tobacco smoke odors of food and medicines.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women throughout Europe with over 340 000 deaths annually. It is also the most common cause of death worldwide cancer.
The disease is strongly associated with symptoms and early detection is often by chance. Current screening methods are unreliable and scientists worked on the use of exhaled breath samples of patients for future trials.
This method is based on the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which has been linked to the presence of cancer. Although many different techniques have been developed applications, this method is still difficult to apply in a clinical setting, because patients do not smoke or eat before the sample analysis can be time consuming and is also a high risk of failure. Because of these reasons, lung cancer non-specific VOC content not yet been identified.
This new study aimed to assess whether the drug dogs to detect VOCs in the breath of patients. The researchers worked in 220 volunteers, including patients with lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and healthy volunteers. They used dogs, which had been specially trained.
The researchers conducted a series of tests to see if the dogs were able to reliably identify lung cancer compared to healthy volunteers, volunteers with COPD and the results are still in the presence of snuff.
Dogs successfully identified 71 samples of 100 lung cancer can They also correctly identified 372 samples that do not have lung cancer out of 400 possible
The dogs could detect lung cancer, regardless of COPD and tobacco smoke. These results confirm the presence of a stable marker of lung cancer, regardless of COPD and also detected in the presence of tobacco smoke odors of food and medicines.
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