Breath Test to Detect Stomach & Oesophageal Cancers

There is a test that now measures the levels of 5 chemicals in the breath that has shown promising results for detecting cancers of the oesophagus and stomach in a large patient trial that has been presented at the European Cancer Congress 2017.

Stomach and oesophageal cancer together, currently account for around 1.4 million new cancer diagnoses each year worldwide. Both of these cancers are usually diagnosed late because their symptoms are ambiguous, or meaning that the five-year survival rate for these types is only 15%.

New research of more than 300 patients has shown that the …read more