Talk about a breath of fresh air.

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking device that may one day make detecting lung cancer as easy as exhaling.

“We built a screening tool that could allow physicians to catch the disease in its early phases, which improves outcomes,” Dr. Shalini Prasad , a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, said in a press release .

That’s no small feat. Lung cancer remains the deadliest cancer in the US by far, claiming about 350 lives every day — more than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined.

And yet, only about 30% of cases are detected early, largely because the disease often causes no symptoms until it reaches advanced, harder-to-treat stages.

Doctors currently rely on low-dose CT scans to screen for lung cancer, but those tests

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