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Predicting Cancer Is All in Your Head

Test on smokers' mouths shows link to disease in lungs

Apr 14, 08 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A simple test on cells from the mouth could help doctors predict which smokers will develop lung cancer, Reuters reports. In a test group, 95% of subjects with the genetic damage associated with cancer in their lungs had the same damage in their mouths. More »

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cancer • medical breakthrough • lung cancer • smoking • University of Texas • lung biopsy

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