CHEST Cheek Scrapings Can Detect Lung Cancer - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
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MONTREAL, Oct. 31 – The quest for a simple diagnostic test of lung cancer is beginning to pay off, researchers said here today.
A scraping of cheek cells contains a “clear signal” of malignancy-associated cellular changes that indicate lung cancer, reported Bojana Turic, M.D., of Perceptronix, Inc., at CHEST 2005, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. But the sensitivity and specificity of the test are not good enough for prime time yet.
Her Vancouver-based company, a spin-off from the public-sector British Columbia Cancer Agency, has spent the past two years on prospective clinical trials evaluating changes found in the sputum of 2,400 participants, all at high risk for lung cancer.
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