Well if early detection of lung cancer is crucial to save a patient, then it's not too far that this would become a reality. A team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has raised hopes of millions of people living with the scar of lung cancer as it has identified a specific blood test to timely diagnose lung cancer.

Even the sensitivity of the medical concern has been shared by the World Health Organization, which has estimated that nearly 1.5 million people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year.

The team conducted probe of 3 mouse specimens of lung adenocarcinoma in addition to a programmed mouse model representing small-cell lung cancer. Following a series of comparative analysis, the team found specific proteins in the blood of mice, being linked with lung cancer.

The most appreciable part is that the team replicated the results in humans also as it recruited 28 smokers being diagnosed with lung cancer and a control group for comparison, and found the same protein in their blood.

Published in the journal Cancer Cell, the study is liable to be extended to further level so that conclusive results could be extracted for resolving the mystery shrouding lung cancer.

As of now, CT scans were being used to do the same, but after deciphering the drawbacks of the same, necessity of a new test is being felt by the medical fraternity across the world, which in this case is a blood test.