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Early detection of lung cancer possible with 'colour breath test'
Feb 26 2007, Rekha

Lung cancer, the most lethal of all cancers kills more than 3 million people globally every year. Most of the time, it goes undetected until it has spread and could save tens of thousands of lives if there was a way to detect lung cancer in early...

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