Sentences with phrase «detect lung cancer»

A guide dog dropout learned to detect bladder, kidney, and prostate cancer, accurately spotting cancer 95 percent of the time — better than some lab tests used for cancer screenings, according to a study in the European Respiratory Journal that also highlighted four trained dogs that could detect lung cancer with an accuracy of 71 percent while properly ruling out cancer 93 percent of the time.

The authors concluded that «annual spiral CT screening can detect lung cancer that is curable», which was optimistic on two fronts.

Researchers discovered that near infrared imaging can detect lung cancer tumors invisible to the naked eye.

The two representatives refer to a controversy over the use of CT scans to detect lung cancer in which scientists on both sides of a debate about the usefulness of this technology were accused of having conflicts of interest.

Intuitive has teamed up with China's Fosun Pharma, for instance, in a joint venture to detect lung cancers in their earliest stages, developing a flexible robotic catheter that can navigate into the cavernous regions of the lungs.

In 2004 two studies on canine cancer detection found that dogs had a 99 % success rate in detecting lung cancer (though these used relatively small samples).

Not exact matches

The company has performed thousands of tests and is working on detecting prostate, breast, colon, and lung cancers.

Beyond lung cancer, Zeng said the lab - on - a-chip could be used to detect a range of potentially deadly forms of cancer.

«Unlike some cancer types such as breast or colon cancer, no widely accepted screening tool has been available for detecting early - stage lung cancers.

Certain diseases, such as lung cancer, can cause patients to give off particular smells; dogs have been known to detect these, and a bioelectronic nose opens the path to diagnosis through smell.

In a study of 124 patients with advanced breast, lung, and prostate cancers, a new, high - intensity genomic sequencing approach detected circulating tumor DNA at a high rate.

The research suggests that the genetic seeds of cancer can sit dormant in a person's lungs for decades, providing hope that the disease could be detected early.

Drs. Crapo and Regan hope the findings will encourage long - term smokers to get lung CT screenings to detect early stages of lung cancer and COPD.

Twenty - five out of the 29 liver cancer patients and 5 out of 12 lung cancer patients tested in this study had early stage cancers, which the program was able to detect in 80 % of cases.

Measurement of exhaled volatile organic compounds to measure lung inflammation, and to detect specific infections and cancers.

In particular, genome - wide sequencing studies have detected somatic mutations in one or more Eph receptors in 25 % -45 % of melanomas, 15 % -45 % of lung cancers, 25 - 40 % of colorectal cancers and 12 % -25 % of head and neck and uterine cancers (Figure 2), but very limited information is available on the effects of the mutations.

A search - and - rescue dog's training and highly sensitive nose detected its owner's lung cancer long enough to prevent it from spreading.

Lung cancer can grow for 20 years before being detected.

The associations between high versus low consumption of decaffeinated coffee and lower risk of type 2 diabetes21 and endometrial cancer40 were of a similar magnitude to total or caffeinated coffee, and there was a small beneficial association between decaffeinated coffee and lung cancer.48 The other outcomes investigated for decaffeinated coffee showed no significant associations, though it should be noted that meta - analyses of consumption would have much lower power to detect an effect.

The person's breath was used to find lung and breast cancer; urine was used to detect bladder or prostate cancer.

Zapharis has actually helped train dogs to detect early stage lung and breast cancers for two federally funded studies, as well as nine dogs who were trained to detect ovarian cancer.

In Berlin, a group of researchers trained some dogs to detect the presence of various types of cancer, including ovarian cancer, bowel cancer (which apparently smells different from both endometrial cancer and cervical cancer), as well as bladder cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer.

Last year, scientists tested ordinary household dogs with basic puppy training and discovered they could detect cancer just by smelling the breath of lung and breast cancer patients.

Chest x-rays help detect or exclude the presence of cancer in the lungs, while abdominal x-rays or ultrasound help detect or exclude the presence of cancer within the abdomen.

Confirming the Mesothelioma Diagnosis Often mesothelioma is difficult to detect because its symptoms resemble those of other diseases such as lung cancer.

For example, the five year survival rate for someone with lung cancer is 54 % but only if the disease is detected early and still localized within the individual's lungs.

I was detected with lung cancer about two months ago.

And once it's out in the wild, Monarch's disease detecting capabilities will eventually extend beyond lung cancer.