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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

First-ever breath test could ‘revolutionise’ care for pancreatic cancer patients

A trial is to assess the effectiveness of a breath test for the disease, which is notoriously hard to spot in its early stages - (Jeff Moore/Pancreatic Cancer UK/PA Wire)

A new breath test could “revolutionise” care for pancreatic cancer patients, experts have said.

In what is a world-first initiative, the breath test is being trialled for the disease which is notoriously hard to spot in its early stages.

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