Divyanjali Rai, Bijay Pattnaik, Sunil Bangaru, Jaya Tak, Jyoti Kumari, Umashankar Verma, Rohit Vadala, Geetika Yadav, Rupinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sunil Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Deepali Jain, Kalpana Luthra, Kunzang Chosdol, Jayanth Kumar Palanichamy, Maroof Ahmad Khan, Addagalla Surendranath, Saurabh Mittal, Pawan Tiwari, Vijay Hadda, Karan Madan, Anurag Agrawal, Randeep Guleria, Anant Mohan
Lung cancer is one of the common cancers globally with high mortality and poor prognosis. Most cases of lung cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage due to limited diagnostic resources. Screening modalities, such as sputum cytology and annual chest radiographs, have not proved sensitive enough to impact mortality. In recent years, annual low-dose computed tomography has emerged as a potential screening tool for early lung cancer detection, but it may not be a feasible option for developing countries. In this context, exhaled breath condensate (EBC) analysis has been evaluated recently as a noninvasive tool for lung cancer diagnosis...
December 2023: Breathe