New test would be a game changer for lung cancer

Lung cancer is detected, most often not until it is too late. But a new study, doctors may have found a way to detect the disease before it becomes even cancer.

Researchers at Boston Medical Center have developed a test with a procedure known as a Bronchoscopy.

In fact, take a pipe, similar to a pipe cleaner, and running down the neck of the patient to collect cells.

Doctors then run tests on these cells to see if they have a gene that can be pre-dispose the patient to develop lung cancer in the future.

If the patient has these cells, doctors can begin treatment of the disease, before becoming cancer cells.

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