Background Survival time for lung cancer is poor with over 90% of patients dying within five years of diagnosis primarily due to detection at late stage. The main objective of this study was to evaluate Fourier transform ...

New cheap and high throughput technologies may allow earlier diagnosis and cost-effective screening programmes for lung cancer (LC). We have shown that sputum is a feasible biofluid for FTIR spectroscopy analysis1 and now ...

Introduction: We have shown that sputum is a feasible biofluid for analysis of biomarkers using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic analysis and that FTIR can detect different patterns of metabolites between ...