Exhaled breath analysis for lung cancer detection using ion mobility spectrometry.

Conventional methods for lung cancer detection including computed tomography (CT) and bronchoscopy are expensive and invasive. Thus, there is still a need for an optimal lung cancer detection technique.The exhaled breath of 50 patients with lung cancer histologically proven by bronchoscopic biopsy s...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Handa, Ayano Usuba, Sasidhar Maddula, Jörg Ingo Baumbach, Masamichi Mineshita, Teruomi Miyazawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4260864?pdf=render