New test for detecting lung cancer early

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Sounds like good news, an antibody profiling test for early small cell lung cancer detection in these articles - the first one is one of many news articles on it, the second is the original paper:

News article on test for early lung cancer detection

Journal of Thoracic Oncology: Volume 1(6) July 2006 pp 513-519
Profiling Tumor-Associated Antibodies for Early Detection of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Zhong, Li PhD; Coe, Sarah P. BS; Stromberg, Arnold J. PhD; Khattar, Nada H. PhD; Jett, James R. MD; Hirschowitz, Edward A. MD

You can read the original article if you click on the link at the end of the MedNews article - it seems to be a timed link and doesn't work when I try to put it in this post directly.

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From the Journal article:

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Briefly, individuals were eligible for the CT screening trial with a minimum 20 pack-year smoking history, age 50 to 75, and no other malignancy within 5 years of study entry.

So, this is smoking-related lung cancer. What about lung cancer detected in
nonsmokers? Likewise, female vs male lung cancer patients, as there are more women who develop this form of cancer ( lung cancer ), than men.

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I don't know, Miller - I'm thinking this is a major detection advance, if only for one kind of lung CA.

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Based on the methods, there'll be a large % of false postives, in my opinion. :wink:

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New test for detecting lung cancer early

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