IIT Roorkee researchers develop breath-based cancer detector

1. A team of professors from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) have developed a breath based cancer detector (BLO Detector),

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2. Which works on the principles of colorimetry.

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3. The team include Prof. Indranil Lahiri, Prof. Partha Roy, Prof. Debrupa Lahiri

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4. And researchers in their groups, the institute said in a statement.

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5. The institute has also signed technology transfer for the BLO detector with Tata Steel.

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6. “BLO Detector will be important for screening a large pull of the population who are susceptible to any of these three types of cancer.

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7. A positive result in this test will ensure a quick visit to a doctor for a detailed diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

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8. This will have a huge impact on increasing the survival rate of cancer patients – specifically of these three types of cancer.

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9. The device has undergone an initial clinical test at a Cancer Research Institute in Dehradun, India

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10. With a sensitivity and specificity of 96.11% and 94.67%, respectively,” IIT Roorkee said in a press statement.

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