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CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 411, Issue 21-22, Pages 1637-1644Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2010.06.005
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Breath gas analysis; Lung cancer; SPME-GC-MS; Data processing; Inspired concentrations; Confounding variables
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- European Commission [LSHC-CT-2005-019031]
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Background Up to now, none of the breath biomarkers or marker sets proposed for cancer recognition has reached clinical relevance Possible reasons are the lack of standardized methods of sampling, analysis and data processing and effects of environmental contaminants Methods Concentration profiles of endogenous and exogenous breath markers were determined in exhaled breath of 31 lung cancer patients, 31 smokers and 31 healthy controls by means of SPME-GC-MS. Different correcting and normalization algorithms and a principal component analysis were applied to the data Results Differences of exhalation profiles in cancer and non-cancer patients did not persist if physiology and confounding variables were taken into account. Smoking history, inspired substance concentrations, age and gender were recognized as the most important confounding variables Normalization onto PCO2 or BSA or correction for inspired concentrations only partially solved the problem In contrast, previous smoking behaviour could be recognized unequivocally Conclusion: Exhaled substance concentrations may depend on a variety of parameters other than the disease under investigation. Normalization and correcting parameters have to be chosen with care as compensating effects may be different from one substance to the other. Only well-founded biomarker identification, normalization and data processing will provide clinically relevant information from breath analysis (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved
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