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Israeli Scientists Identify Early Breast Cancer More Accurately
(Jerusalem Post) Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - A screening method that detects breast cancer more accurately and earlier has been developed Ben-Gurion University and Soroka-University Medical Center researchers, the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine reported. Researchers detected breast cancer with more than 95% accuracy using two different commercial electronic noses that identify unique breath patterns in women with breast cancer. In addition, revamped analyses of urine samples yielded 85% accuracy. "Our new approach utilizing urine and exhaled breath samples - analyzed with inexpensive, commercially available systems - is noninvasive," said Prof. Yehuda Zeiri, a member of Ben-Gurion University's department of biomedical engineering.