Penn Medicine develops an odor test that can quickly detect cancers with over 90% accuracy thedp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Newswise PHILADELPHIA An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
The findings suggest that the Penn-developed tool which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to decipher the mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitting off cells in blood plasma samples could serve as a non-invasive approach to screen for harder-to-detect cancers, such as pancreatic and ovarian.
The results will be presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting on June 4 by
An "e-nose" test smells cancer in the vapors blood samples give off with a high level of accuracy. "It's an early study but the results are very promising."
An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95% accuracy.
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