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Lung cancer can be detected in patients' breath using just 7 volatile organic compounds, with new machine learning and statistical techniques

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PLOS

Multigroup prediction in lung cancer patients and comparative controls using signature of volatile organic compounds in breath samples

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Credit: Samarendra Das and Braja Bruti Das, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277431

Article Title: Multigroup prediction in lung cancer patients and comparative controls using signature of volatile organic compounds in breath samples

Author Countries: USA, India

Funding: This study was supported by Netaji Subhas-ICAR International Fellowship, OM No. 18(02)/2016-EQR/Edn. (SD) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India. It was supported in part by NIH NCI grant: 1R21CA229057, PI: XF. It was supported in part by Wendell Cherry Chair in Clinical Trial Research Fund (SNR), multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA grants (SNR) (5P20GM113226, PI: McClain; 1P42ES023716, PI: Srivastava; 5P30GM127607-02, PI: Jones; 1P20GM125504-01, PI: Lamont; 2U54HL120163, PI: Bhatnagar/Robertson; 1P20GM135004, PI: Yan; 1R35ES0238373-01, PI: Cave; 1R01ES029846, PI: Bhatnagar; 1R01ES027778-01A1, PI: States;), and Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education grant (PON2 415 1900002934, PI: Chesney). The content is solely the authors' responsibility and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH or ICAR. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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