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APRIL 12, 2021

Breath Analysis Fairly Accurate For Detecting Gastric Cancer

But reliability depends largely on prevalence

Breath testing has the potential to dramatically improve the efficiency of screening for gastric cancers, according to a recent assessment of the approach. Such noninvasive testing would be useful for identifying patients likely to have gastric cancer, and for whom a confirmatory diagnostic upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is warranted.

“Breath analysis is a promising method for detecting gastric cancer, with good diagnostic performance and the potential to decrease the number needed to