MONDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that a blood test could offer evidence that a nonsmoker has lung cancer, potentially giving doctors a new diagnostic tool.
About one in four people who develop lung cancer have never smoked. This test could be used to find indications of the disease in patients whose chest scans show signs of potential trouble, investigator Charlie Birse, associate director of product development at Celera Corp., said in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research.
The test "would allow these imaging tests to be further evaluated and provide a degree of certainty in diagnosis," Birse explained.
The res...