New breath test could detect early signs of lung cancer

Doctors may introduce a breath test designed to detect early signs of lung cancer which could help lower the disease’s death rate. It comes after scientists discovered subtle genetic changes in vapour given off by cells which may help shape the way lung cancer – the biggest cause of cancer death in the UK each year – is detected. Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Technion-Israel Institute of -Technology examined cells taken from the lining of the airways that had been engineered to carry different genetic faults linked to early stage lung cancer. They developed a technique for