Protein Test May Detect Lung Cancer

Duke University Medical Center researchers have developed a new method to detect differences between normal and cancerous lung tissue. This technique, which measures proteins that are produced in different amounts in healthy and cancerous lung tissue, could potentially be used for diagnosis and treatment of many different kinds of cancer. This Duke team found that their new method, called ADEPPT, can detect proteins in lung cancer tissue that's missed by current conventional methods of protein profiling.