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Now, a new test that can smell cancer on your breath

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Press Trust of India Washington

Unveiled at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, this cancer-detecting breathalyser system, which is still awaiting clinical trials, is able to conduct pre-screening for both breast cancer and lung cancer.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology who developed the breathalyser said it could drastically reduce cancer screening costs and also the time and discomfort linked with CAT scans and mammograms.

"Most of the directions people are moving in are toward the more complex, the more expensive. I wanted something that

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First Published: Jun 13 2012 | 3:36 PM IST

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