In the case of patients with low risk of lung cancer, the current diagnostic procedure can sometimes be invasive and unnecessary. However, new research of detecting lung cancer by NASAL SWAB may have uncovered a less invasive, less costly way to screen these patients. New research suggests that a simple nasal swab could accurately determine whether a patient has lung cancer. A team of researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in Massachusetts may have found a more convenient way to determine whether lung lesions are malignant.
The findings were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Lung lesions - or solitary pulmonary nodules - are small growths in the lungs that are usually detected incidentally when a patient has an X-ray for other reasons. Although physicians are typically worried about cancer upon discovering the lesions, these are benign in…
