Technion Breakthrough with Detecting Nose for cancer

Researchers have designed an "electric nose", which is able to detect chemical signals of cancer in the breath of people. These are forms of lung, head and neck cancer.

The discovery is a first step towards a simple diagnosis of cancer in the room of the doctor. Types of cancer in the head and neck are difficult to determine without specialized research. As a result, these types of cancer are diagnosed at a late stage,to which the likelihood of success of a treatment benefit decreases.

Patterns
Researchers from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, studied with an artificial nose the breath of eighty volunteers. 22 of the volunteers had head or neck cancer, 24 had lung cancer and 36 people were healthy.

The breath test showed that in the breath of head and neck cancer patients, specific recognizable patterns of molecules were present.

"For now it is important to check our results  at a larger populations," said leading researcher Hossam Haick. If the breath test proves to be effective, it may lead to a new screening method in an early stage of the disease.



Hossam Haick

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