Thoracic surgeon Gaetano Rocco, MD, holding a component of the "E-Nose," a noninvasive lung cancer test that produced promising results in a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Detecting lung ...
The prospect of simply walking into a doctor’s office and breathing into a handheld device for a few seconds to screen for lung cancer sounds too convenient to be true. Well, that scenario moved ...
What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...