Honeybees can detect lung cancer in humans through their powerful sense of smell, new research shows. A new study found they could differentiate the breath of healthy people and those with lung ...

Once again, the bees not only reacted to the tumors but also distinguished different lung cancer cell lines, an important differentiation for the clinical treatment of various forms of the disease.

They found that the bees, known for their sharp sense of smell, had an 88% success rate at detecting the synthetic breath that contained cancer cells and differentiating between different types of ...

Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans ...

The World Health Organization noted in 2020 that lung cancer claimed 1.8 million lives around the globe, and early detection using methods like this could go a long way towards preventing them.

In the validation cohort, the new model achieved an ROC-AUC of 0.83 for detecting lung cancer across all participants, with a sensitivity of 94%, a specificity of 63%, a PPV of 79%, and an NPV of 89%.