“Pap smears” for early detection of lung cancer? Two physicians are especially interested in finding abnormal cells in the sputum in time to discover a lung cancer while it is still small enough to ...

CYTOLOGIC study of sputum and bronchial washings has proved a valuable aid in the diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma of the lung. Mention is made in several reports of positive cytologic results in ...

Detection of lung cancer by sputum cytology has low sensitivity but is noninvasive and, if improved, could be a powerful tool for early lung cancer detection. To evaluate whether the accuracy of ...

September 8, 2008 — Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of bronchoscopic brush biopsies might be useful in identifying patients at high risk of developing lung cancer and diagnosing the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- DNA coughed up along with phlegm could point to lung cancer, say researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who are developing an inexpensive and non-invasive gene ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality rate worldwide, mainly because of the presence of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis. Early detection of lung cancer improves prognosis, ...

Sputum cytology and bronchoscopyexaminations could help detecting early central airway lung cancer, researchers of the University of Hong Kong said here Tuesday. The university's Faculty of Medicine ...

AS long as the assumption is valid in most cases that carcinoma is, in its onset, a localized disease, eradication of the local lesion should provide cure. And this, irrespective of disturbing ...

May 12, 2009 — Screening computed tomography (CT) might be able to detect early-stage lung cancers and improve the prognosis of lung cancer patients, according to a study published in the May issue of ...

WASHINGTON (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say a simple test that analyzes DNA in a person's sputum could be used to diagnose lung cancer. As outlined in an article in the journal Clinical Cancer ...

Existing sputum "cytology" tests, which look for changes in cell structure, identified only 47 percent of the patients, they say. While no other simple sputum analysis has found such a high ...

DNA coughed up along with phlegm could point to lung cancer, say researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who are developing an inexpensive and non-invasive gene probe to help ...