A small study suggests a test of the chemicals in your breath
may be able to detect colon cancer. Currently the tests used to
screen for colon cancer is a colonoscopy. Now a study of
seventy-eight people with and without colon cancer has found
that those with the disease tended to have a distinct pattern of
chemicals in their breath. When researchers analyzed the breath
samples, they correctly identified colon cancer patients
seventy-six percent of the time. The test is in its very early
stages and won't be available in your doctor's office anytime in
the near future. Findings appear online in the "British Journal
of Surgery."