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Episode: Breath test can detect some cancers
Description: In the U.K., a clinical trial of a breath test that can diagnose a variety of cancers including the gut, pancreas and esophagus at an early stage is underway.
Doctors developing the technology say previous trials have shown a 90 percent accuracy. Now, they want to see if it can catch the disease early when patients have better outcomes from treatment. The goal of doctors everywhere is to catch the disease in its earliest stages before it has had time to seriously harm a patient.
For several years, a multidisciplinary team of doctors and scientists at Imperial College London have...