Breath Analysis for Breast Cancer and Its Subtypes
March 30, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
Exhaled breath has some 2,500 chemicals that are potential biomarkers for diseases. To discover biomarker profiles of breast cancer subtypes, researchers at National Taiwan University of Public Health inserted breathing tubes into the lower respiratory tract of women who were about to undergo breast surgery. The tube minimized air contamination. After determining the chemicals present, they used artificial intelligence to define the biomarker subtypes of estrogen positive, progesterone positive, human epidermal growth factor positive, and triple negative (ER, PR, HER2). MORE WITH VIDEO
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