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Exhaled breath analysis for lung cancer

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Thoracic Disease, October 2013
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Title
Exhaled breath analysis for lung cancer
Published in
Journal of Thoracic Disease, October 2013
DOI 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.08.44
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Authors

Annette G Dent, Tom G Sutedja, Paul V Zimmerman

Abstract

Early diagnosis of lung cancer results in improved survival compared to diagnosis with more advanced disease. Early disease is not reliably indicated by symptoms. Because investigations such as bronchoscopy and needle biopsy have associated risks and substantial costs, they are not suitable for population screening. Hence new easily applicable tests, which can be used to screen individuals at risk, are required. Biomarker testing in exhaled breath samples is a simple, relatively inexpensive, non-invasive approach. Exhaled breath contains volatile and non-volatile organic compounds produced as end-products of metabolic processes and the composition of such compounds varies between healthy subjects and subjects with lung cancer. Many studies have analysed the patterns of these compounds in exhaled breath. In addition studies have also reported that the exhaled breath condensate (EBC) can reveal gene mutations or DNA abnormalities in patients with lung cancer. This review has summarised the scientific evidence demonstrating that lung cancer has distinct chemical profiles in exhaled breath and characteristic genetic changes in EBC. It is not yet possible to accurately identify individuals with lung cancer in at risk populations by any of these techniques. However, analysis of both volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath and of EBC have great potential to become clinically useful diagnostic and screening tools for early stage lung cancer detection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Turkey 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 276 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 51 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 17%
Student > Bachelor 45 16%
Student > Master 35 12%
Other 17 6%
Other 36 13%
Unknown 51 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 46 16%
Chemistry 46 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 35 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 26 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 6%
Other 47 17%
Unknown 64 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 September 2022.
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#1,446,404
of 24,593,555 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Thoracic Disease
#90
of 2,426 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,176
of 212,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Thoracic Disease
#2
of 32 outputs
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