Researchers from the University of Silesia Special designed a mouthpiece that will be used in the diagnosis of upper and lower respiratory tract diseases, for lung and laryngeal tumors and bronchial diseases.

The use of analytical chemistry allows to identify and determine the relationship between certain types of proteins in exhaled air and the occurrence of lung or laryngeal cancer. The patient’s health status is determined based on the analysis of tumor markers, which are collected using the so-called Tedlar’s sacks. The examined person blows up the air with the marked proteins into them.

The mouthpiece allows to filter the air inhaled by the patient and direct it to the porous material, which will help reduce the contamination of the collected material and place a larger number of tumor markers in a single study.
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